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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18378| Publication type: | Conference paper |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | How do plants respond to a rising carbon tax? : empirical evidence on energy consumption and emissions |
| Authors: | Fauceglia, Dario Leu, Thomas Müller, Tobias |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-18378 |
| Conference details: | 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019 |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Carbon tax; Plant behavior; Emission; Energy consumption |
| Subject (DDC): | 333.79: Energy |
| Abstract: | This paper examines how Swiss plants respond to a carbon tax that was increased by 400% during the period 2008-2015. In response to the tax and unrelated to sector affiliation, we find that while plants reduced carbon emissions by 12-15%, energy consumption fell by 4-6%. These results are consistent with a series of CO2 fuel tax elasticities estimates ranging between -0.1 and -0.23. Plants in the service sector exclusively reduced emissions by consuming less fossil fuels, whereas plants in the industry sector also increasingly switched to the less carbon-intensive natural gas. Finally, more heavily taxed plants due to a relatively carbon-intensive energy mix as well as plants with high pre-policy emission levels decreased emissions disproportionately. |
| URI: | https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=EEAESEM2019&paper_id=2422 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18378 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Economic Policy (FWP) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Fauceglia, D., Leu, T., & Müller, T. (2019). How do plants respond to a rising carbon tax? : empirical evidence on energy consumption and emissions. 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18378
Fauceglia, D., Leu, T. and Müller, T. (2019) ‘How do plants respond to a rising carbon tax? : empirical evidence on energy consumption and emissions’, in 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18378.
D. Fauceglia, T. Leu, and T. Müller, “How do plants respond to a rising carbon tax? : empirical evidence on energy consumption and emissions,” in 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019, 2019. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18378.
FAUCEGLIA, Dario, Thomas LEU und Tobias MÜLLER, 2019. How do plants respond to a rising carbon tax? : empirical evidence on energy consumption and emissions. In: 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019 [online]. Conference paper. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. 2019. Verfügbar unter: https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=EEAESEM2019&paper_id=2422
Fauceglia, Dario, Thomas Leu, and Tobias Müller. 2019. “How Do Plants Respond to a Rising Carbon Tax? : Empirical Evidence on Energy Consumption and Emissions.” Conference paper. In 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18378.
Fauceglia, Dario, et al. “How Do Plants Respond to a Rising Carbon Tax? : Empirical Evidence on Energy Consumption and Emissions.” 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association & 72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 26-30 August 2019, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, 2019, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18378.
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