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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112471
	Carbon pricing in Germany's road transport and housing sector: Options for reimbursing carbon revenues
	Frondel M.; Schubert S.A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	157
英文摘要	In 2021, Germany launched a national emissions trading system (ETS) in its road transport and housing sectors that increases the cost burden of consumers of fossil fuels, the major source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. A promising approach to secure public acceptance for such a carbon pricing would be to entirely reallocate the resulting “carbon” revenues to consumers. This article discusses three alternatives that were discussed in the political arena prior to the introduction of the national carbon pricing: a) a per-capita reallocation to private households, b) the reduction of electricity prices by, e.g., decreasing the electricity tax, as well as c) targeted financial aid for vulnerable consumers, such as increasing housing benefits. To estimate both the revenues originating from carbon pricing and the resulting emission savings, we employ a partial equilibrium approach that is based on price elasticity estimates on individual fossil fuel consumption from the empirical literature. Most effective with respect to alleviating the burden of poor households would be increasing housing benefits. While this measure would not require large monetary resources, we argue that the remaining revenues should be preferably employed to reduce Germany's electricity tax, which becomes more and more obsolete given the steadily increasing amount of electricity generated by renewable energy technologies. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Distributional effects; Electricity tax; Housing benefits
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Carbon dioxide; Costs; Economics; Emission control; Fossil fuels; Motor transportation; Renewable energy resources; Roads and streets; Taxation; A-carbon; Carbon pricing; CO2 emissions; Distributional effect; Electricity taxes; Emission trading systems; Housing benefit; Housing sectors; Public acceptance; Road transport sectors; Housing; alternative energy; electricity generation; electricity supply; energy efficiency; fossil fuel; fuel consumption; road transport; Germany
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256576
作者单位	RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Hohenzollernstr. 1-3, Essen, D-45128, Germany; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; SRH University Heidelberg, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Frondel M.,Schubert S.A.. Carbon pricing in Germany's road transport and housing sector: Options for reimbursing carbon revenues[J],2021,157.
APA	Frondel M.,&Schubert S.A..(2021).Carbon pricing in Germany's road transport and housing sector: Options for reimbursing carbon revenues.Energy Policy,157.
MLA	Frondel M.,et al."Carbon pricing in Germany's road transport and housing sector: Options for reimbursing carbon revenues".Energy Policy 157(2021).