Author/Editor: Philip Daniel, Alan Krupnick, Thornton Matheson, Peter Mullins, Ian Parry, Artur Swistak.

Release Date:November, 2017

This paper suggests that the environmental and commercial features of shale gas extraction do not warrant a significantly different fiscal regime than recommended for conventional gas. Fiscal more...

Author/Editor: David Coady, Ian W.H. Parry, Louis Sears, Baoping Shang.

Release Date:May, 2015

This paper provides a comprehensive, updated picture of energy subsidies at the global and
 regional levels. It focuses on the broad notion of post-tax energy subsidies, which arise more...

Author/Editor: Ian W.H. Parry, Chandara Veung, Dirk Heine.

Release Date:September, 2014

This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbondioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits(leaving aside the global more...

Author/Editor: Dirk Heine, John Norregaard, Ian W.H. Parry.

Release Date:July, 2012

This paper recommends a system of upstream taxes on fossil fuels, combined with refunds for downstream emissions capture, to reduce carbon and local pollution emissions. Motor fuel taxes should also more...

Author/Editor: Ian W.H. Parry, Jon Strand.

Release Date:July, 2011

Gasoline and diesel fuel are heavily taxed in many developed and some emerging and developing countries. Outside of the United States and Europe, however, there has been little attempt to quantify more...

Author/Editor: Ian W.H. Parry.

Release Date:June, 2011

Fiscal instruments are potentially among the most effective, and cost-effective, options for addressing externalities related to poor air quality, urban road congestion, and greenhouse gases. This more...