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  "title": "Are Climate Change Policies Politically Costly?",
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  "summary": "Are policies designed to avert climate change (Climate Change Policies, or CCPs) politically costly? Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index, we find that CCPs are not necessarily politically costly: policy design matters.",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index, CCPs are not necessarily politically costly: policy design matters.\n- Only market-based CCPs (such as emission taxes) generate negative effects on popular support.\n- The negative effects of CCPs on popular support are muted in countries where non-green (dirty) energy is a relatively small input into production.\n- Political costs are not significant when CCPs are implemented during periods of low oil prices, generous social insurance and low inequality."
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      "content": "- Data sources: governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index.\n- Publication type: IMF Working Papers.\n- Authors: Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Jonathan David Ostry.\n- Publication date: June 4, 2021.\n- Pages: 52.\n- Volume: 2021.\n- Issue: 156.\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2021/156.\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513578361.001.\n- Stock No: WPIEA2021156.\n- ISBN: 9781513578361.\n- ISSN: 1018-5941."
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      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Climate change, Climate policy, Environment, Environmental policy, Fuel prices, Natural disasters, Prices.\n- Keywords: baseline model, Climate change, Climate policy, Environmental policy, EPS change, Fuel prices, Global, Natural disasters, policy design, Policy implication, popular support.\n\nIMF Working Paper by Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, and Jonathan David Ostry (June 4, 2021).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Working Paper\n  - Working Paper (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Working Paper (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2021/06/04/are-climate-change-policies-politically-costly-460565"
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    "Authors: Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Jonathan David Ostry",
    "Published: June 4, 2021",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513578361.001",
    "Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index, CCPs are not necessarily politically costly: policy design matters.",
    "Only market-based CCPs (such as emission taxes) generate negative effects on popular support.",
    "The negative effects of CCPs on popular support are muted in countries where non-green (dirty) energy is a relatively small input into production.",
    "Political costs are not significant when CCPs are implemented during periods of low oil prices, generous social insurance and low inequality.",
    "Data sources: governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index.",
    "Publication type: IMF Working Papers.",
    "Authors: Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Jonathan David Ostry.",
    "Publication date: June 4, 2021.",
    "Pages: 52.",
    "Volume: 2021.",
    "Issue: 156.",
    "Series: Working Paper No. 2021/156.",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513578361.001.",
    "Stock No: WPIEA2021156.",
    "ISBN: 9781513578361.",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941.",
    "Subject: Climate change, Climate policy, Environment, Environmental policy, Fuel prices, Natural disasters, Prices.",
    "Keywords: baseline model, Climate change, Climate policy, Environmental policy, EPS change, Fuel prices, Global, Natural disasters, policy design, Policy implication, popular support.",
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