Commins, Nicola; Lyons, Sean; Schiffbauer, Marc; Tol, … - 2009
In this paper, we study the impact of energy taxes and the EU ETS on a large number of firms in Europe between 1996 and …. Aspects of behaviour and performance studied include total factor productivity, employment levels, investment behaviour and … profitability. On the whole, energy taxes increased total factor productivity and returns to capital but decreased employment, with …