Climate & Transport Policies
14th April (9:30 – 13:00)
Facultat d’Economia i Empresa – Universitat de Barcelona
Sala de Recepcions
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9.30 Welcoming
KEYNOTE LECTURE: ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION
9:40 Xavier Labandeira (U. Vigo) The Spanish White Book on Tax Reform: Environmental Taxation and Transport
SESSION 1: CLIMATE POLICIES IN THE POST-UKRAINE INVASION CONTEXT
10:30 Jordi Perdiguero (UAB) Price effects of subsidizing petrol in Europe (and in Spain) (Juan Luis Jiménez, Jordi Perdiguero & Jose M. Cazorla). 11:00 Mattia Borsati (UB) Do massive public transport fare discounts improve urban air quality? (Daniel Albalate, Mattia Borsati & Albert Gragera)
11:30 coffee break
SESSION 2: TRANSITION TO LOW CARBON TECHNOLOGIES IN TRANSPORT
12:00 Xavier Fageda (UB). Technology diffusion in Carbon Markets: evidence from Aviation (Xavier Fageda and Jordi Teixidó) 12:30 Adrian Santonja di Fonzo (DIW). Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles (Peter Haan, Adrian Santonja and Aleksandar Zaklan)
13:00 Closure