Publications related to Pigouvian tax

AI-driven Prices for Externalities and Sustainability in Production Markets

Boi Faltings, Aris Filos Ratsikas, Panayiotis Danassis

Traditional competitive markets do not account for negative externalities; indirect costs that some participants impose on others, such as the cost of over-appropriating a common-pool resource (which diminishes future stock, and thus harvest, for everyone) ...

Cornell University2023

The Rebound Effects from Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvements

Michel Zimmermann

In energy policy, energy efficiency constitutes a central element in reducing domestic and, specifically, industrial en-ergy use. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements in achieving its targets is known to be limited by rebound ...

EPFL2022

Incremental financial analysis of black liquor upgraded gasification in integrated kraft pulp and ammonia production plants under uncertainty of feedstock costs and carbon taxes

François Maréchal, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

In this work, the conventional scenario of the black liquor (BL) concentration and combustion is compared with the BL upgrading gasification process for ammonia production. The chemical processes synthesis, modeling and simulation are performed by using As ...

Elsevier2022

Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Transactivator Tax Exploits the XPB Subunit of TFIIH during Viral Transcription

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax oncoprotein is required for viral gene expression. Tax transactivates the viral promoter by recruiting specific transcription factors but also by interfering with general transcription factors involved in ...

American Society for Microbiology2020

Meta-Modeling to Assess the Possible Future of Paris Agreement

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie, Alain Bernard

In the meta-modeling approach, one builds a numerically tractable dynamic optimization or game model in which the parameters are identified through statistical emulation of a detailed large scale numerical simulation model. In this paper, we show how this ...

SPRINGER2018

Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

This thesis examines the optimal mode of financing for banks and financial institutions. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet, investigates how Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) should be financed. The ...

EPFL2017

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Turning greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ball ...

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy2016

Trade policy: Home market effect versus terms-of-trade externality

Chiara Forlati

We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman (1980) trade model, allowing for wage, import and export subsidies/taxes. We study non-cooperative trade policies, first for each individual instrument and then for the situation where all instruments can be se ...

Elsevier2014

Corporate governance and capital structure dynamics

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff, Boris Nikolov

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model to examine the importance of managershareholder conflicts in capital structure choice. In the model, firms face taxation, refinancing costs, and liquidation costs. Managers own a fraction of the firms equity, capture par ...

2012

Assessment of Acceptable Swiss post-2012 Climate Policies

Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, André Sceia

In the framework of the revision of the Swiss CO2-Law and in the preparation of the international negotiations that place at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Swiss Government has proposed a set ...

2012

Integrated Assessment of Swiss GHG Mitigation Policies After 2012

Marc Vielle, André Sceia, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The residential sector presents a great potential for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation. We perform an integrated assessment of different mitigation policies for Switzerland focusing on the residential sector. We analyze the case of pure incentive taxes an ...

Springer Netherlands2012

The impact of fiscal-monetary policy interactions on government size and macroeconomic performance

Vincenzo Cuciniello

This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation, output and government size by reexamining the time inconsistency of optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a general equilibrium model with staggered timing structure for the acquisition of nominal m ...

2009

Evolution of Transmission Rights in the European Electricity Market

Matthias Finger, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

In the European electricity market, transmission rights currently evolve from a physical to a financial nature. This requires a fundamental change in the underlying market design and the institutional setup. This paper applies the framework of congestion r ...

2009

Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums

Nicholas Bornstein

Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...

2008

Impact Analysis of Carbon Tax on the Renewal Planning of Energy Supply System for an Office Building

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat

An optimal planning method is proposed for the renewal planning problem of an energy supply system installed into building from economic viewpoint. In this method, the objective function to be minimized is the average annual total cost during the evaluatio ...

2008

Burden sharing within a multi-gas strategy

Marc Vielle, Alain Bernard

The purpose of this paper is to assess and compare regional welfare costs associated with alternative multi-gas strategies for a stabilization of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the long run. Mitigation costs of non-CO2 greenhouse gases are inte ...

2006

DRONE - a tool for urban traffic noise abatement policy evaluation

Ashish Bhaskar, Edward Chung

Areawide Dynamic ROad traffic NoisE simulator-DRONE, been has developed by the integration of a road traffic noise prediction model (ASJ MODEL-1998) with road traffic simulator (AVENUE) which is further linked with GIS to provide areawide dynamic road traf ...

2005