Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129803 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 16-026
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We study how European climate and energy policy targets affect different member states and households of different income quintiles within the member states. We find that renewable energy targets in power generation, by reducing EU ETS permit prices, may make net permit exporters worse off and net permit importers better off. This effect appears to dominate the effciency cost of increasing the share of energy provided by renewable energy sources in the countries that adopt such targets. While an increase in prices for energy commodities, which is entailed by the policies in question, affects households in low income quintiles the most, recycling revenues from climate policy allows governments to compensate them for the losses. If renewable targets reduce the revenues from ets permit auctions, member states with large allocations of auctionable permits will lose some of the ability to do so.
Subjects: 
distributional effects
EU climate policy
renewable energy target
JEL: 
H23
Q52
Q54
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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