Political Economy Determinants of Carbon Pricing

@article{Levi2020PoliticalED,
  title={Political Economy Determinants of Carbon Pricing},
  author={Sebastian Levi and Christian Flachsland and Michael Jakob},
  journal={Global Environmental Politics},
  year={2020},
  volume={20},
  pages={128-156}
}
Carbon pricing is widely considered a key policy instrument for achieving substantial climate change mitigation. However, implementation remains patchy and price levels vary significantly across countries and regions. In this article, we analyze the structural social, political, and economic conditions under which carbon prices have been implemented so far. We estimate a Tobit regression model to investigate variations in explicit carbon prices over 262 national and subnational jurisdictions… 
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