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At the steering committee, we presented the first results of both the computable general equilibrium and the microsimulation models, as well as the results of the first survey on public acceptability. The model results highlighted the labor market and distributional impacts of a standard climate tax shift (CTS) scenario. We found that such CTS could…

At the second meeting of the steering committee, HIVA presented the design of the first sociological survey, whose objective is to identify which factors affect the level of public acceptability of carbon pricing, by focusing on policy design. A test survey was conduced beforehand with a limited panel. The results of this test survey were…

The first meeting of the steering committee was the opportunity to thoroughly present the E4BEL project. We began by presenting the backbone of the project: the combined use of macroeconomic, microeconomic and sociological methods in order to assess the equity, efficiency and acceptability of carbon pricing in Belgium. HIVA will develop surveys to assess the…