RT Journal Article
T1 The impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing: evidence from microdata
A1 Martin, Ralf
A1 Preux, Laure B. de
A1 Wagner, Ulrich J
AB We estimate the impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the full tax and plants that paid only 20% of the tax. Exploiting exogenous variation in eligibility for the tax discount, we find that the carbon tax had a strong negative impact on energy intensity and electricity use. No statistically significant impacts are found for employment, revenue or plant exit
PB Elsevier
SN 0047-2727
YR 2014
FD 2014-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10016/20691
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/20691
LA eng
NO This research was funded by the ESRC under research grant RES-000-22-2711. Ralf Martin was supported bythe Anglo-German Foundation as a part of the “Sustainable Growth in Europe” project. Ulrich Wagner gratefullyacknowledges financial support from the Earth Institute at Columbia University and from the Spanish Ministry for Scienceand Innovation, reference number SEJ2007-62908.
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