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Carbon Taxes: A Large Impact with Small Negative Economic Effects
As greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reach alarming levels, countries face increasing pressure to adopt more aggressive environmental policies. However, concerns regarding their economic effects and their impacts on different groups of people (distributional effects) can hinder their adoption. Reducing emissions, after all, means reallocating resources away from high-carbon sectors towards low-carbon ones, with inevitable consequences […]
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