Data and Code for "Energy Cost Pass-Through in U.S. Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University; Joseph Shapiro, University of California-Berkeley; Reed Walker, University of California-Berkeley

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Project Citation:

Ganapati, Sharat, Shapiro, Joseph, and Walker, Reed. Data and Code for “Energy Cost Pass-Through in U.S. Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-03-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E110643V1

Project Description

Summary:

We study how changes in energy input costs for U.S. manufacturers affect the relative welfare of manufacturing producers and consumers (i.e., incidence). We also develop a methodology to estimate the incidence of input taxes which accounts for incomplete pass-through, imperfect competition, and substitution amongst inputs. For the several industries we study, 70 percent of energy price-driven changes in input costs get passed through to consumers in the short- to medium-run. The share of the welfare cost that consumers bear is 25-75 percent smaller (and the share producers bear is larger) than models featuring complete pass-through and perfect competition would suggest.

Funding Sources: National Bureau of Economic Research; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; United States Department of Energy; National Science Foundation

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
H22 Incidence
H23 Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

Geographic Coverage: United States of America

Time Period(s): 1972 – 1997

Universe: Manufacturing industry

Data Type(s): program source code

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