All pages with keywords: carbon taxes

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
This paper addresses the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting – the 2015 ballot on energy taxes in Switzerland. read more »

Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade
This paper measures the response of bilateral trade flows to differences in industrial energy prices across countries. Using a panel for the period 1996-2011 including 42 countries, 62 sectors and … read more »

Which is better: carbon tax or cap-and-trade?
Which is better: carbon tax or cap-and-trade? read more »

Effects of carbon taxes in an economy with large informal sector and rural-urban migration
I build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector and rural-urban migration to analyse the effects of budget-neutral green tax … read more »

Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) … read more »
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