Ex-post empirical assessments of environmental policies : a literature review : searching for a research design that can capture causal effects of environmental policies on environmental performance

Ex-post empirisk utvärdering av miljöstyrmedel :en litteraturöversikt

In this essay, scientific literature that performs ex-post empirical (counterfactual) assessment of environmental policies is reviewed. The main purpose of the literature review is to get an overview of ex-post empirical assessment approaches, i.e. research designs, that aim to capture the causal effects of environmental policies on environmental performance. The literature review is intended to give guidance in the search for a suitable and feasible research design to assess the Swedish tax exemption of pure and high-blended liquid biofuels . 30 articles are reviewed and grouped by research design/estimation model. Considering the small number of studies that apply counterfactual analysis explicitly on liquid biofuel policies, the review will include ex-post empirical assessment studies that focus on the broader concepts of renewable energy, CO2 taxation, and emission trading systems. Furthermore, since the literature on climate change is dominated by studies employing computational (simulation) models, the literature review also includes a few (ex-ante) computational model studies. Based on research designs applied in the reviewed literature, together with the features of the Swedish tax exemption of pure and high-blended liquid biofuels, suggestions for research designs for ex-post empirical (counterfactual) assessment are given.

• Record URL:
  http://vti.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1478417/FULLTEXT01
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• Authors:
  • Lång, Elisabeth
• Publication Date: 2020

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 37
• Serial:
  • VTI utlåtande
  • Issue Number: 961
  • Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biomass fuels; Environmental protection; Evaluation; Financing; Policy; Taxes
• ITRD Terms: 3861: Biofuel; 2444: Environment protection; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 244: Grant; 173: Policy; 244: Subsidy; 268: Tax
• Subject Areas: Policy; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01781113
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, VTI
• Created Date: Sep 1 2021 2:26PM