Do energy taxes decrease carbon dioxide emissions?

This paper investigates the environmental effectiveness of the Swedish energy taxes. That is, whether these have decreased the CO2 emissions and how they have changed the structure of the energy consumption. Time series data for the years 1960-2002 is used. The results show that the oil and coal tax...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sundqvist, Patrik
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8034