This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. Consistently with economic theory, we estimate changes in household welfare, inequality and...

We construct carbon footprints from households' expenditure and employ the EASI demand system to simulate the distributional and environmental effects of a introducing a 'green VAT' in Ireland. For our analysis, we combine expenditure data from the Irish Household Budget Survey with data on...

This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. Consistently with economic theory, we estimate changes in household welfare, inequality and...