Political Interventions to Reduce Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) and Price Effects: An Event Study for Austria and Germany

Felix Reichel

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Abstract: Single-use plastics (SUPs) impose substantial environmental costs. Following Directive (EU) 2019/904, Austria and Germany introduced producer charges and fund payments to finance clean-up. Using a high-frequency panel of retail offer spells with prices and a fixed-effects event-study design with two-way clustered standard errors, this paper estimates the extent to which these costs are passed through to consumer prices. We find clear evidence of price pass-through in Austria. Pooled Austrian SUP products are 13.01 index points more expensive than non-SUP controls within twelve months (DiD(12m); p

Date: 2025-10, Revised 2025-12
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