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Peter Birch Sørensen

Peter Birch Sørensen

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Economics and Finance

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19

Overview

Peter Birch Sørensen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on economics, with a specialization in the intersections of climate change policy and environmental sustainability.

They have contributed to the academic field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance through 14 publications, with significant emphasis on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Accounting, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

Research topics covered in their work include:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Agricultural Economics and Policy
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Recent papers authored by or involving Sørensen include:

  • "Barriers and opportunities in developing and implementing a Green GDP," 2020, Ecological Economics
  • "Optimal energy taxes and subsidies under a cost-effective unilateral climate policy: Addressing carbon leakage," 2022, Energy Economics
  • "Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage," 2022, Climate Policy
  • "The interaction of actual and fundamental house prices: A general model with an application to Sweden," 2021, Journal of Housing Economics
  • "Opimal Unilateral Climate Policy with Carbon Leakage at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter Kruse-Andersen
  • Ole Gravgård Pedersen
  • Jette Bredahl Jacobsen
  • Jens Hoff
  • Martin Møller Boje Rasmussen

Sørensen has published in several venues, with multiple works appearing in "Økonomi & Politik" and "Samfundsøkonomen," as well as publications in "Ecological Economics," "Energy Economics," and "Climate Policy."

They have contributed to book publications through the Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks, including a work titled "Nordic Economic Policy Review 2023: EU versus National Climate Policies in the Nordics" released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • From the Global Income Tax To the Dual Income Tax: Recent Tax Reforms in The Nordic Countries.

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • On the optimality of the Nordic system of dual income taxation

    Søren Bo Nielsen;Peter Birch Sørensen;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • The Corporate Income Tax: international trends and options for fundamental reforms

    Michael P. Devereux;Peter Birch Sorensen

  • COMPANY TAX REFORM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics : Growth and Business Cycles

    Peter Birch Sørensen;Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen

  • Taxing Profits in a Global and Economy: Domestic and International Issues

    Michael Devereux;Mark Pearson;Peter Birch Sorensen

  • International tax coordination: regionalism versus globalism

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Taxing profits in a global economy

    Michael Devereux;Mark Pearson;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • International capital taxation

    Rachel Griffith;James R. Hines Jr.;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Optimal tax progressivity in imperfect labour markets

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Neutral Taxation of Shareholder Income

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Can Capital Income Taxes Survive? And Should They?

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Tax policy in the Nordic countries

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Optimal Taxation with Household Production.

    Henrik Jacobsen Kleven;Wolfram F. Richter;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • The case for international tax co‐ordination reconsidered

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • CHANGING VIEWS OF THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Environmental policy, pollution, unemployment, and endogenous growth

    Søren Bo Nielsen;Lars Haagen Pedersen;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • The dilemmas of tax coordination in the enlarged European Union

    Jens Brøchner;Jesper Jensen;Patrik Svensson;Peter Birch Sørensen

  • The theory of optimal taxation: what is the policy relevance?

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • Measuring the tax burden on capital and labor

    Peter Birch Sørensen

  • FinanzArchiv Public Finance Analysis

    Johannes Becker;Clemens Fuest;Juan A. Lacomba;Francisco M. Lagos

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Rosholm
Michael Rosholm Aarhus University
Michael P. Devereux
Michael P. Devereux University of Oxford
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven Princeton University
James R. Hines
James R. Hines University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
Alfons J. Weichenrieder
Alfons J. Weichenrieder Goethe University Frankfurt
Clemens Fuest
Clemens Fuest Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter Reinhard Hansen
Peter Reinhard Hansen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Karl Ove Moene
Karl Ove Moene University of Oslo
Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood University of Warwick

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