Auftraggeber: Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds
Studie von: Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung – Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse – Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
In this project, we aim at assessing the impact of carbon pricing on firms and households in Austria using a novel macroeconomic
agent-based model (ABM) with an extraordinary level of granularity. The ABM will be calibrated on administrative datasets
that have become available through the Austrian Microdata Center (AMDC). Newly available registry-based household and firm
data will allow us to parameterize the ABM to accurately represent the entire population of Austria at an unprecedented level
of granularity. This would be a major step towards creating a full "digital twin" of a national economy to be used as a tool
for assessing the distributional impact of climate policy on individual firms and households, with a focus on the heterogeneity
of such effects across socioeconomic characteristics.
