Expectations are key to carbon tax’s impact, says ECB paper

Inflation may rise if consumers doubt government’s commitment to raise green taxes, research finds

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The European Central Bank

An increase in carbon taxes is likely to put downward pressure on prices, a paper published by the European Central Bank finds.

In their paper, Alessandro Ferrari and Valerio Nispi Landi analyse the impact of a gradual increase in a carbon tax using different models. Expectations play a key role, the authors find.

Using a simple two-period New Keynesian model, they find that increasing the tax in the first period fuels inflationary pressures. But the expected tax increase in the second period

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