TY  - GEN
AU  - Høj,Jens
AU  - Wörgötter,Andreas
TI  - Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in Austria
T2  - OECD Economics Department Working Papers,
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Paris
PB  - OECD Publishing
KW  - Economics
KW  - Austria
N2  - This document analyses the economic impacts of selected environmental policies in Austria with an emphasis on the use of economic instruments and incentives versus command-and-control measures. An important theme in a federation like the Austrian is the institutional complexity involved in many aspects of environmental policy, requiring a high degree of co-ordination between various layers of government, which could be furthered by a coherent ex ante and ex post evaluation system. Such a system could also be useful in the setting of abatement objectives and minimizing their associated cost. Greater use of properly designed instruments, examples being a unified taxation of fuels and the introduction of a CO2 tax, would improve the cost-effectiveness of policies to reach Austria's ambitious CO2 emission reduction target. This would particularly be the case if economic instruments replace the widespread use of subsidies and command-and-control type measures. Such measures are found to
UR  - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1787/402531183476
ER  -