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How Does Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laer Curves?
How much additional tax revenue can the government generate by increasing labor income taxes? In this paper we provide a quantitative answer to this question, and study the importance of the progressivity of the tax schedule for the ability of the governme ...
NBER Working Paper2015Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments
Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire
We couple top-down and bottom-up models to analyse electricity markets. We simulate energy policies under alternative regulatory assumptions. We shows that market liberalisation affects the links between generation costs and user prices. We show that the c ...
EPFL LEURE2015Trade policy: Home market effect versus terms-of-trade externality
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 ...
Elsevier2014Linking the Swiss Emissions Trading System with the EU ETS: Economic Effects of Regulatory Design Alternatives
The Swiss government intends to link the Swiss Emissions Trading System to the EU ETS after 2012. Employing GENESwIS, a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Swiss economy, we investigate the macroeconomic and sectoral effects of a post ...
2012Impact of biofuels production on land-use change and greenhouse gas emissions
This research assesses the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission constraints imposed in biofuel importing countries on the export potential of biofuel producing countries. Several countries are promoting the introduction of biofuels on their energy matri ...
EPFL2012Business interest in Swiss climate policy
Successful implementation of policies and measures is key for effective climate legislation. In the political decision process, implementation depends to some extent on interest group influence. This project deals with the questions of why, how and what bu ...
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