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Green preferences and climate change mitigation Location: Auditorium A: Victor D. Norman Session Chair: Eline Augusta Jacobs, Stockholm School of Economics | |
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Are E-Bike Subsidies Cost Effective in Mitigating Carbon Emissions? 1: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; 2: Columbia University, USA E-bike subsidies are growing in popularity globally. Evaluating their cost effectiveness w.r.t. reducing car driving emissions is more complicated than for other durable green goods since E-bike owners might not substitute away from driving. We evaluate the cost effectiveness of a Swedish subsidy program in 2018 by combining administrative, insurance, car registry and survey data. We find a complete passthrough of the subsidy to consumers, which incentivized a near doubling of E-bike sales. For the 90,000 individuals in our subsidy sample, we find however only a small substitution from driving based on registry estimates, much smaller than reported in surveys of subsidy recipients. The cost of carbon would have to be an unreasonable $800 per ton for the program to be cost effective. We also address additionality, coincidental benefits and alternative E-bike subsidy designs that can be more cost effective. | |