We examine how a European carbon price will affect citizens by studying its incidence on
households in 23 countries of the EU. At the national level, the distributional impact before …

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

This paper aims to assess the prospects for French climate policies after the Yellow Vests
crisis halted the planned increase in the carbon tax. From a large representative survey, we …

Using a representative survey, we find that after the Yellow Vests movement, French people
would largely reject a tax and dividend policy, ie, a carbon tax whose revenues are …

Price elasticities of energy demand have become increasingly relevant in estimating the
socio-economic and environmental effects of energy policies or other events that influence …

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 …

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the
success of ambitious actions in the fight against climate change—from both the political …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

This paper studies the distributional effects of France's recently introduced carbon tax. Using
a microsimulation model built on a representative sample of the French population from …

Many policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have at their core efforts to put a price on
carbon emissions. Carbon pricing impacts households both by raising the cost of carbon …