@techreport{DoegnitzKoncMattauch, type = {Working Paper}, author = {D{\"o}gnitz, Lorenz and Konc, Th{\´e}o and Mattauch, Linus}, title = {The Political Economics of Green Transitions: Optimal Intertemporal Policy Response}, series = {Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers}, journal = {Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers}, edition = {No. 47}, doi = {10.48462/opus4-5596}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-55960}, pages = {37}, abstract = {Besley and Persson (2023) pioneer a political economy model of a green transition with changing preferences. Here we solve for the optimal policy intervention and find that the optimal tax on the polluting good starts high and is subsequently declining, to support the transition in preferences. We quantify the welfare loss of ignoring preference changes.}, language = {en} } @techreport{ArlinghausKoncMattauchetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Arlinghaus, Johanna and Konc, Th{\´e}o and Mattauch, Linus and Sommer, Stephan}, title = {The effect of information framing on policy support: Experimental evidence from urban policies}, series = {Jahrestagung des Vereins f{\"u}r Socialpolitik 2024: Upcoming Labor Market Challenges}, journal = {Jahrestagung des Vereins f{\"u}r Socialpolitik 2024: Upcoming Labor Market Challenges}, publisher = {ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics}, address = {Kiel, Hamburg}, pages = {38}, abstract = {Does information influence policy support? We administer a large-scale representative survey with randomised video treatments to test how different policy frames affect citizens' attitudes towards urban tolls in two large European metropolitan areas without tolls, Berlin-Brandenburg and Paris-Ile de France. Providing information on air pollution increases support by up to 11.4\%p, information on climate change and time savings increase support by 7.1 and 6.5 \%p, respectively. Treatment effects are stronger in the Paris region, where initial support is lower. We also investigate treatment effect heterogeneity across different socioeconomic characteristics as well as by prior beliefs held about the severity of environmental and traffic problems, and we find weak spillovers of our treatment on the support of other policies. Our findings imply that targeted communication of policy co-benefits can increase policy support across different population groups.}, language = {en} }