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Session

Climate policies and mitigation
Location: Auditorium A: Victor D. Norman
Session Chair: Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia

Presentation 1

Preferences and willingness to pay for climate policy mixes

Karolina Rütten^1,3, Maximilian Kellner¹, Matthias Kalkuhl^1,3, Andreas Peichl^2,5, Lisa Windsteiger^2,4

1: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)/ MCC Berlin; 2: ifo Institute; 3: University of Potsdam; 4: University of Salzburg; 5: LMU Munich

Discussant: Jakob Lehr (University of Mannheim)

In the discussion surrounding mitigation policies, subsidy programs are often met with high public support, whereas carbon pricing is stagnating at low price levels due to the fear of public backlash. We conduct a survey experiment where respondents can select the shares of carbon pricing and subsidies in the climate policy mix to achieve a given abatement target in the building sector. Our findings show that the gap between public preferences and efficient climate policy making is at least partly driven by the asymmetric salience of costs and benefits of both instruments. Our information treatment reveals the individual cost of financing subsidies. The less respondents are directly affected by carbon pricing, the stronger they react to this information, reducing the share of subsidies in their preferred policy mix. The more costly subsidy programs are compared to carbon pricing, the stronger the effect. However, our study also shows that there is an inherent preference for subsidy programs that can be diminished but does not disappear when costs and benefits are made salient. Given the higher cost of subsidy schemes to achieve the same abatement effect as a carbon price, respondents on average prefer to pay EUR 4 to fund subsidy schemes rather than to pay an additional EUR 1 for carbon pricing.