1. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Fiscal Consolidation and Climate Policy: An Overlapping Generations Perspective

    This paper examines the distributional and efficiency impacts of public debt consolidation financed through a carbon tax employing a dynamic general-equilibrium model with overlapping generations of the U.S.…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Intergenerational Aspects of Ecotax Reforms – an Application to Germany

    In a model of overlapping generations and majority voting, we analyze an ecotax reform consisting of the tax rate and the budgetary rule. Revenue can be recycled through a lump-sum transfer or a…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2013

    Political Influence on Non-cooperative International Climate Policy

    We analyze non-cooperative international climate policy in a setting of political competition by national interest groups. In the first stage, countries decide whether to link their domestic emission …