Climate Policy and the Economy: Evidence from Europe's Carbon Pricing Initiatives

DR Känzig, M Konradt - 2023 - nber.org
This paper investigates the impact of carbon pricing on the economy, with a focus on
European carbon taxes and the carbon market. Our analysis reveals three key findings. First …

The unequal economic consequences of carbon pricing

DR Känzig - 2023 - nber.org
This paper studies the economic impacts of carbon pricing. Exploiting institutional features of
the European carbon market and high-frequency data, I document that a tighter carbon …

Effects of carbon pricing and other climate policies on CO2 emissions

E Kohlscheen, R Moessner, E Takats - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03800, 2024 - arxiv.org
We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide
emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of climate policies: Carbon pricing vs. subsidizing renewables

K Gugler, A Haxhimusa, M Liebensteiner - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most but not all economists view carbon pricing as most effective to combat carbon
emissions, whereas other policies are widely applied and highly debated. We quantify the …

[HTML][HTML] Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses

JF Green - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon pricing has been hailed as an essential component of any sensible climate policy.
Internalize the externalities, the logic goes, and polluters will change their behavior. The …

Carbon pricing efficacy: Cross-country evidence

R Best, PJ Burke, F Jotzo - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020 - Springer
To date there has been an absence of cross-country empirical studies on the efficacy of
carbon pricing. In this paper we present estimates of the contribution of carbon pricing to …

[PDF][PDF] The economic consequences of putting a price on carbon

DR Känzig - Available at SSRN, 2021 - ecb.europa.eu
How does carbon pricing affect the economy? Is it successful at reducing emissions and
how does it affect economic inequality? Exploiting institutional features of the European …

Carbon taxation and greenflation: Evidence from Europe and Canada

M Konradt, B Weder di Mauro - Journal of the European …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the effects of carbon pricing on inflation dynamics. We construct a sample
of carbon taxes implemented in Europe and Canada over three decades and estimate the …

Estimating the CO2 emission and revenue effects of carbon pricing: New evidence from a large cross-country dataset

FM D'Arcangelo, M Pisu, A Raj, K van Dender - 2022 - oecd-ilibrary.org
This paper estimates the long-run elasticity of emissions and carbon-related government
revenues to carbon pricing. It is based on the OECD Effective Carbon Rates database, the …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon pricing and emissions: Causal effects of Britain's carbon tax

K Gugler, A Haxhimusa, M Liebensteiner - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study estimates that the introduction of a carbon tax in the British power sector in 2013
and its two subsequent elevations in 2014 and 2015 led to a substantial decline in electricity …