Eurozone carbon tax hike would cause small GDP fall, paper finds

Raising tax to rate consistent with net zero would create only transient inflation, researchers say

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Increasing eurozone carbon prices would cause a temporary inflation rise and a small GDP fall, a working paper published by the European Central Bank finds.

In Macroeconomic effects of carbon transition policies, a team of researchers use the ECB’s new area-wide model. Günter Coenen, Matija Lozej and Romanos Priftis incorporate a disaggregated energy sector into the model, differentiating between “clean” and “dirty” sources of power. They look at the effects of “permanent increase in carbon

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