The Impact of Carbon Trading on Industry: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Konferenzbeitrag

We estimate the causal impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme on manufacturing firms using comprehensive panel data from the German production census. Semiparametric matching estimators yield robust evidence that the policy caused treated firms to abate one fifth of their CO2 emissions between 2007 and 2010, relative to non-treated fi rms. This reduction was achieved predominantly by improving energy efficiency and by curbing the consumption of natural gas and petroleum products, but not electricity use. We find no evidence that emissions trading lowered employment, turnover or exports of treated fi rms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Industrial Organization III ; No. C11-V3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wagner, Ulrich ; Petrick, Sebastian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100472
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET