EU climate and energy policy defines ambitious objectives for the EU member countries requiring a fundamental change of energy systems. This paper suggests basing the analysis of restructuring options on energy services instead of energy flows. In order to provide the energy services in a...

Macroeconomic modelling is widely applied to assess the effects of carbon pricing. However, there remains substantial uncertainty on these effects within and especially across different modelling approaches. This paper, Part A, identifies model structure uncertainties and impact chains, i.e....

In this paper we identify policy implications for implementing carbon pricing in Austria, taking into account model structure uncertainty (see Part A: Kirchner et al., 2023). Methodologically, we compare the results of two macroeconomic models, DYNK and WEGDYN_AT, to evaluate the effects of...