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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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Puzzling tax attitudes and labels
- 2009
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Ingår i: Applied Economics Letters. - 1350-4851. ; 16:16-18, s. 1809-1812
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent have never actively invested in a sustainable fund. Preferences for sustainable investment as well as the attentiveness of the investment decisions correlate with certain investor attributes. Young people and women value sustainability higher than others and women make their investment choice less attentively than men. Investors making the choice inattentively are less influenced by financial information. Nudges, such as sustainability labels, may be a more effective way of communicating with this group.
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972
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The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a Firstand Second-best world
- 2003
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal environmental tax is shown to be equal to the conventional Pigovian tax. In a second-best world where the social planner has a restriction on the future environmental tax level, the current optimal tax is no longer equal to the Pigovian tax. We extend the analysis with time-inconsistent (myopic) individuals to both the first (no restriction on future environmental tax) and second-best world (restriction on future environmental tax). Also, the importance of addiction in an environmental framework is discussed.
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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The effect of energy efficiency on Swedish carbon dioxide emissions 1993-2004
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Observed decoupling of emissions from output on the aggregate may not only occur due to increased efficiency on sectoral level, but also in case the sectoral composition signi cantly changes from emissions intensive industries towards others, by relocation of emission intensive sectors to foreign countries, by substitution to cleaner types of energy, or by a contraction of the whole economy - all without changes in effciencies. In this paper, we undertake a decomposition analysis using the logarithmic-mean Divisia Index method (LMDI) to investigate the overall change in CO2 emissions from 1993-2004 in the Swedish business and industry sectors, and to identify the most important factors explaining this change. We find that only four sectors (agriculture; pulp and paper; basic metal; land transportation), out of the eight sectors that each contribute with more than 5% of total CO2 emissions, contributed to a decrease in CO2 emissions through increased energy efficiency. Even more striking is the result that on the aggregate level for the whole economy and summarizing over the whole period 1993-2004, a slightly positive effect of energy effciency on CO2 emissions can be identified, while changes in relative size, i.e. overall structural change, and substitution to cleaner fuels have been more important regarding reductions in aggregate emissions.
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the objective to establish a carbon price creating incentives for cost efficient reductions of emitted green house gases. In this article we perform an expost analysis where we use detailed firm level data to analyse the effect of the EU ETS on firms’ investment decisions in carbon reducing technologies. In addition we draw on the existing literature and control for firm specific characteristics that has previously been shown to be determinants of firms’ investment in clean technology.
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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The Importance of Habit Formation for Environmental Taxation
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We analyze how habit formation affects optimal environmental taxation, when consumption of a habitual good causes a negative external effect on the environment. In a simple two-period model, we show that optimal taxation is still Pigouvian, where tax rates equal marginal damage in each period. However, the magnitudes of the tax rates are affected by habit formation. Using simulations we show that since consumption of the habitual good increases over time, so does the optimal tax rate, implying a higher tax rate in period two than in period one. The discrepancy increases in habitual strength. Given the development of the tax rates over time we discuss the welfare loss from imposing a secondbest environmental tax and its relation to habitual strength. Further, we analyze how optimal taxation changes if we relax the assumption of time-consistency
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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The Phase-Out of Leaded Gasoline in the EU: A Successful Failure?
- 1999
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to analyze in both descriptive and econometric terms the phase-out of leaded gasoline consumption in the EU countries. The phase-out process is characterized by increased consumption of unleaded gasoline. We analyze the importance of price differences, share of catalytic converters, income per capita, and country characteristics in the phase-out process. Since the expected maintenance costs of using unleaded gasoline in cars without catalytic converters compared to the use of leaded gasoline differ insignificantly according to available evidence, and consumers still use leaded gasoline even though unleaded gasoline is cheaper; we interpret this as a lack of reliable information. The results indicate that countries, which have not yet phased out leaded gasoline, should do this by either banning leaded gasoline or by increasing the tax differential between leaded and unleaded gasoline depending on the objective of the social planner.
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