In view of the challenges posed by climate change and the increasingly ambitious climate
targets around the world, the search for effective climate policy instruments is gaining …

Road transport imposes negative externalities on society. These externalities include
environmental and road damage, accidents, congestion, and oil dependence. The cost of …

Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to
design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable …

Existing estimates of optimal climate policy ignore the possibility that carbon tax revenues
could be used in a progressive way; model results therefore typically imply that near-term …

Environmental taxation represents a key influence on sustainable development in post-
transition countries. Romania has experienced important transformations of environmental …

This paper1 takes as its starting point the observation that fuel prices–and thus taxes–are
important for good management of climate change and other environmental problems. To …

This paper analyses the distributional effects of alternative scenarios of carbon taxes on car
fuels using disaggregated French panel data from 2003 to 2006. It incorporates household …

All countries in Europe have road fuel taxes and these account for roughly half of the net fuel
price. We compare current road fuel taxes and corrective taxes, estimated on the basis of …

In highly motorised countries, some sectors of the population own and use cars despite
struggling to afford their running costs, and so may be particularly vulnerable to motor fuel …

This paper investigates the trade-offs between progressivity and effectiveness for a carbon
tax versus an 'excessive consumption'levy. To do this, we compare the distribution of …