@article{Combet:332431,
      recid = {332431},
      author = {Combet, Emmanuel and Ghersi, Frédéric and Hourcade,  Jean-Charles and Thubin, Camille},
      title = {A Carbon Tax and the Risk of Inequity},
      address = {2013},
      pages = {27},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Dakar, Senegal},
      abstract = {This paper aims at clearing up some misunderstandings  about the social impacts of carbon taxes that proved to be  a decisive obstacle to their further consideration in  public debates. It highlights the gap between the cost of a  carbon tax reform as it is spontaneously perceived by the  taxpayers and the reality of its ultimate consequences: the  real impact on households’ poverty and inequalities is not  mechanically determined by the initial burden of energy on  consumption budgets and by the capacity of households to  alleviate it, but also depends upon the use made of the tax  proceeds and its general macroeconomic impacts. The  comparison of five taxrecycling schemes highlights the  existence of trade-offs between maximising total  consumption, reducing unemployment, maximising the  consumption of the lowincome classes and reducing income  inequality.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332431},
}