Firm-level Estimates of Fuel Substitution: An Application toCarbon Pricing

Marie Hyland and Stefanie Haller

The Energy Journal, 2018, vol. 39, issue 6, 71-98

Abstract: We estimate partial and total own and cross price elasticities between electricity, gas and oil, using firm-level data. We find that, based on the partial elasticity measure, electricity is the least-responsive fuel to changes in its own price and in the price of other fuels. The total elasticity measure, which adjusts the partial elasticity for changes in aggregate energy demand induced by individual fuel price changes, reveals that the demand for electricity is much more price responsive than the partial elasticity suggests. Our results illustrate the importance of accounting for the feedback effect between interfactor and interfuel elasticities when considering the effectiveness of environmental taxation. We use the estimated elasticities to simulate the impact of a €15/tCO2 carbon tax on average energy-related CO2 emissions.

Keywords: Fuel substitution; Firm-level data; Environmental taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Journal Article: Firm-level Estimates of Fuel Substitution: An Application to Carbon Pricing (2018)
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DOI: 10.5547/01956574.39.6.mhyl

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