Basaglia, Pier; Behr, Sophie M.; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2023 - Revised version: 25th July 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and … air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform …, and find average reductions in external damages of around 80 billion Euros. We further show that the eco-tax induced low …