Electricity Use of Automation or How to Tax Robots?
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| Title: | Electricity Use of Automation or How to Tax Robots? |
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| Authors: | Emanuel Gasteiger, Michael Kuhn, Matthias Mistlbacher, Klaus Prettner |
| Source: | Scottish Journal of Political Economy. |
| Publisher Information: | Wiley, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | Department of Economics Working Paper Series |
| Description: | While automation technologies replace workers in ever more tasks, robots, 3D‐printers, and AI require substantial amounts of electricity. How are automation technologies affected by the price of electricity, and how do robot taxes and electricity taxes affect their adoption? To answer these questions, we generalize a standard economic growth model to incorporate automation and electricity use. In addition, we augment the model with electricity taxes and robot taxes and show the mechanisms by which these taxes affect automation. We find that an electricity tax—that is comparatively easy to implement—can serve a similar purpose as a robot tax. |
| Document Type: | Article Research |
| File Description: | text |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1467-9485 0036-9292 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sjpe.70032 |
| DOI: | 10.57938/67c9f3a3-ad64-430a-9b22-83a296e49a76 |
| Access URL: | https://research.wu.ac.at/de/publications/550553b0-40ec-4717-a377-6e1a4afbb080 https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.70032 https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/20912/ |
| Rights: | CC BY unspecified |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....376da25e0b0ff8b6fe43fe3757c07114 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | While automation technologies replace workers in ever more tasks, robots, 3D‐printers, and AI require substantial amounts of electricity. How are automation technologies affected by the price of electricity, and how do robot taxes and electricity taxes affect their adoption? To answer these questions, we generalize a standard economic growth model to incorporate automation and electricity use. In addition, we augment the model with electricity taxes and robot taxes and show the mechanisms by which these taxes affect automation. We find that an electricity tax—that is comparatively easy to implement—can serve a similar purpose as a robot tax. |
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| ISSN: | 14679485 00369292 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/sjpe.70032 |