Unter Ökonom:innen ist es inzwischen schon fast eine Binsenweisheit, dass ein robuster CO2-Preis ein "zentrales Instrument" in der Bekämpfung des Klimawandels sein sollte. Gleichzeitig sind CO2-Preise politisch oft unbeliebt, selbst, wenn gleichzeitig die Bevölkerung eigentlich von der...

Carbon taxes and fossil fuel subsidy reforms have been recognized as an efficient means to mobilize substantive domestic resources for sustainable development. Yet, despite their advantages compared to other taxes, concerns about potential adverse impacts on poverty and inequality have...

The aim of this paper is to enunciate a new way to estimate levelized cost of electric energy (LCOE), considering emission of greenhouse gases cost, by taking the theoretical cost of avoiding pollution as the emission cost. In this way, it would be comparable LCOE from different sources of...

Policies that are introduced to mitigate adverse consequences of climate change involve economic costs. For some households, these costs will materialise in the form of an increase in prices of consumption goods, whereas for others they will materialise in the form of falling productivity and...