European countries introduced a combination of demand-side fiscal policies and mandatory supply-side emissions standards to reduce CO2 emissions rates of new cars. I quantify the equilibrium response to one of the most drastic demand-side policies, the Finnish CO2 differentiation of automobile...

This paper investigates firm-level environmental responses to China’s export value-added tax (VAT) rebate reduction policy launched in 2007. Using the matched dataset of firms’ production, pollution, and export structure, we employ a difference-in-differences a strategy that exploits...