Is energy performance too taxing?

Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. Taxing bads by taxing goods : pollution control with presumptive charges / Gunnar S. Eskeland, Shantayanan Devaraj...

Is Statistics Too Difficult? Is Statistics Too Difficult?

By means of several historical examples, it is shown that it does not appear to be easy to build bridges between rigorous mathematics and reasonable data{analytic procedures for scientiic measurements. After mentioning of both some positive and some negative aspects of statistics, a formal framework for statistics is presented which contains the concept formation, derivation of results, and int...

Taxing Subnetworks

We study taxes in the well-known game theoretic traffic model due to Wardrop. Given a network and a subset of edges, on which we can impose taxes, the problem is to find taxes inducing an equilibrium flow of minimal networkwide latency cost. If all edges are taxable, then marginal cost pricing is known to induce the socially optimal flow for arbitrary multi-commodity networks. In contrast, if o...

Taxing Democracy

Who is too fat?

Obesity is a modern pandemic that, if not checked, will lead to increased rates of morbidity and mortality from type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoarthritis, hypertension, and other complications. In Tonga, a country with one of the highest percentages of obese people in the world, the recent further increase in incidence of obesity has reduced life expectancy from the mid-70...