Public Preferences for Carbon Tax Attributes

Z. Eylem Gevrek () and Ayse Uyduranoglu ()
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Z. Eylem Gevrek: Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany
Ayse Uyduranoglu: Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

No 2015-15, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: The impacts of climate change are already visible throughout the world. Recognizing the threats posed by climate change, the Durban Platform, the 17th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP 17), underscores that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation and ambitious action by all countries. A crucial starting point for the design of effective and publicly acceptable policies is to explore public preferences for climate policy instruments. Using a choice experiment, this study investigates public preferences for carbon tax attributes in a developing country context. The results account for heterogeneity in preferences and show that Turkish people prefer a carbon tax with a progressive cost distribution rather than one with a regressive cost distribution. The private cost has a negative effect on the probability of choosing the tax. Earmarking carbon tax revenues increases the public acceptability of the tax. Moreover, there is a preference for a carbon tax that promotes public awareness of climate change.

Keywords: Carbon taxes; Choice experiment; Latent class model; Mixed logit model; Preferences; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2015-07-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cwa, nep-dcm, nep-ene and nep-env
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