03/06/2022

Xavier Labandeira, ECOBAS researcher, receives the Alexandre Pedrós Award

This award acknowledges the best article published in the Spanish Journal of Public Finance-Review of Public Economics during 2021.

Labandeira shares authorship of the article with Alberto Gago, researcher of the REDE group, and with UNED professors José M. Labeaga and Xiral López-Otero.

The article analyzes the role played by energy and environmental taxation in the transition to decarbonized economies and discusses some of the limitations that exist in its proper application, such as its possible negative impacts on distribution and equity.

More information in the University of Vigo Journal

AWARD-WINNING RESEARCH ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE