Taxing Car-produced Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Matching the Cure to the Disease
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F14%3A00232287" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/14:00232287 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(14)00326-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(14)00326-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(14)00326-8" target="_blank" >10.1016/S2212-5671(14)00326-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Taxing Car-produced Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Matching the Cure to the Disease
Original language description
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced by cars is a linear (albeit fuel specific) function of the amount of fuel consumed. Because CO2 emissions generate social costs, through their effect on climate change, which escape the price mechanism, a tax on CO2 is indicated. An ideal tax would alter the consumer prices so that they match the marginal social costs. This setting thus calls for a specific tax on fuel equal to the value of externality resulting from the combustion of a unit of fuel.Since such tax scheme is readily available, we study to what extent the existing CO2 tax policies make use of it. We find that they do only to a limited extent. Thus our policy prescription is to drop existing CO2 taxes and use the existing fuel taxes to adjust fuel prices so that they match the marginal social costs related to burning of fuel.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0031" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0031: Postdoc contracts at MENDELU technical and ekonomical research</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
17th International Conference Enterprise And Competitive Environment 2014
ISBN
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ISSN
2212-5671
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
111-120
Publisher name
Elsevier Science Bv
Place of publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Event location
Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC
Event date
Mar 6, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
345439100013