Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study

Julius J. Andersson (2019) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-221", tranche="tranche150")

Julius J. Andersson (2019). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. .

Template assessment

The supplied numerical replication is a Swedish aggregate time-series regression of log gasoline consumption on tax levels, a carbon-tax indicator, trend and macro controls with Newey-West inference. It is not a unit-by-time adoption comparison. The paper’s synthetic-control analysis would require a separate source mapping.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.