Lakócai Csaba Muth Dániel Weiner Csaba
Public acceptance of and willingness to pay for a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions in Hungary
To curb anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, the European Union will introduce carbon pricing for the energy consumption of buildings and transport in 2027. This paper is the first to investigate the public acceptance of and willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical carbon tax in a Central and Eastern European country, Hungary, and the public-support increasing effect of different revenue-recycling mechanisms in terms of the number of supporters and the WTP value. These issues and the public attitude towards climate change in Hungary were examined through a newly developed large-scale survey. Our research shows low acceptance of a carbon tax in Hungary, which could be increased by revenue-recycle mechanisms, but not to a significant extent. This is also true for the WTP values. As compared to the extant literature, a novel empirical result is the popularity of public health care and education in revenue recycling. One lesson is the need to integrate social considerations into climate-policy development.
LXX. évf., 2023. October (1077 - 1107. O.), DOI:10.18414/KSZ.2023.10.1077, Study
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