I am working on a study to estimate the impact of carbon taxes vs subsidies on emissions in a country. I have read that an integrated assessment model is my best bet for something simple and direct but I can't seem to find any consensus on this. I currently have an equation from Assaad et al. (2020)
where CO2 = (covariates of population, energy intensity, carbon intensity) +treatment (i.e. carbon tax) + error.
Is this sufficient? Please help.
I do not know the approach of Assaad et al. (2020). But with a simple equation model, this problem cannot be adequately investigated. This is GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) modelling. In my view an exact analysis requires a very complex micro-simulation model.
It doesn’t make sense to ask for ``best", since that depends on the other factors that define the model; and the figure of merit needs to be spelled out beforehand.
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