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Essays on climate policy and transportation

By: Series: Aalto University publication series. Doctoral theses ; 128/2025 Publication details: Helsingfors : Aalto University. Department of Economics, 2025Description: 35 sISBN:
  • 9789526426235
Subject(s): Online resources: Notes: Härtill 3 uppsatser Dissertation note: Diss. (sammanfattning) Helsingfors : Aalto-universitetet, 2025 Summary: Private vehicles are a major source of greenhouse emissions and an exemplar of the political contentiousness of climate action. Through direct ballots and protest movements such as the Yellow Vests, voters have repeatedly rejected carbon pricing – a policy recommended by economists with remarkable consensus due to its theoretical efficiency and empirical effectiveness – with appeals to the costs it imposes on low-income households that depend on their fossil-fuel powered car. In this thesis, I study the distributional impacts and political acceptability of transportation sector carbon pricing (namely fuel taxation), and the abatement potential of alternative, place-based policies.
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Härtill 3 uppsatser

Diss. (sammanfattning) Helsingfors : Aalto-universitetet, 2025

Private vehicles are a major source of greenhouse emissions and an exemplar of the political contentiousness of climate action. Through direct ballots and protest movements such as the Yellow Vests, voters have repeatedly rejected carbon pricing – a policy recommended by economists with remarkable consensus due to its theoretical efficiency and empirical effectiveness – with appeals to the costs it imposes on low-income households that depend on their fossil-fuel powered car. In this thesis, I study the distributional impacts and political acceptability of transportation sector carbon pricing (namely fuel taxation), and the abatement potential of alternative, place-based policies.