This paper examines the likely immediate impact effect of some pollution taxes on the tax
burden of households in a number of European countries. The total effect on households of …

Recent proposals from the European Union are designed to promote environmental
improvement, or at least reduce the continuation of environmental decay. One such proposal …

This work is aimed to assess the distributive incidence of carbon taxation: the issue has not
been widely investigated whereas more attention has been focused on the efficiency of …

In this work the welfare effects and the distributive impact on Italian households of the Italian
Carbon tax are calculated. The Carbon tax has been introduced in Italy at the beginning of …

Abstract The European Commission's proposals 2 for a carbon tax would levy a substantial
new tax on fossil fuels in proportion to their carbon and energy content, as part of the …

Denmark today carries one of the heaviest environmental tax burdens in the world, bringing
in around 10% of public revenues. While evaluations have shown that the Danish CO2 and …

This paper explores the effects of a tax levied on Spanish energy‐related CO2 emissions.
After justifying the relevance of carbon taxation in the Spanish context, we consider the …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects that energy taxes may have on reducing
environmental pollution in Greece. We study the demand for residential energy for the …

We simulate the welfare effects of the Carbon-Energy Tax introduced in Italy at the
beginning of 1999 which asks for smooth increases, over a number of years, in the prices of …

To what extent do the welfare costs associated with the implementation of the Burden
Sharing Agreement in the European Union depend on sectoral allocation of emissions …