Across the globe, energy and environmental policy-driven regulations such as eco-taxes, subsidies, support schemes for renewable energies and emissions trading systems are at the core of the policy discussion on how to transition to sustainable energy systems. These regulations, however, create cost and rents which translate into the incidence for households via changes in commodity prices on the expenditure side and factor remuneration and potential transfers on the income side. Here, students will be required to conduct an in-depth review of the literature on this subject.  

Microeconomics, statistics, environmental or energy economics