【文献选读第十四期】征收碳税对于制造业的影响：来自微观数据的证据 The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: Evidence from Microdata

推文信息：

Ralf Martin, Laure B. de Preux, Ulrich J. Wagner. Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: Evidence from Microdata. Journal of Public Economics. 117(2014). Pp.1-14.

摘要：

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e estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after joining a Climate Change Agreement (CCA). Exploiting exogenous variation in eligibility for CCA participation, we find that the CCL had a strong negative impact on energy intensity and electricity use. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the tax had no detrimental effects on economic performance and on plant exit.