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Does the Swiss Car Market Reward Fuel Efficient Cars? Evidence from Hedonic Pricing Regressions, Matching and a Regression Discontinuity Design

Alberini, Massimo Anna; Filippini, Massimo; Bareit, Markus - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2014

To correct market failures due to the presence of negative externalities associated with energy consumption, governments have adopted a variety of policies, including taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards, and information-based policies. For example, labels that clearly convey energy...

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Highly-resolved modeling of personal transportation energy consumption in the United States

Muratori, Matteo; Moran, Michael J.; Serra, Emmanuele; … - In: Energy 58 (2013) C, pp. 168-177

This paper centers on the estimation of the total primary energy consumption for personal transportation in the United States, to include gasoline and/or electricity consumption, depending on vehicle type. The bottom-up sector-based estimation method introduced here contributes to a...

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Are the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Passenger Vehicles Negative?

Parry, Ian W.H. - 2006

Energy models suggest that the cost of reducing carbon emissions from the transportation sector is high relative to other sectors, such as electricity generation. However, this paper shows that taxes to reduce passenger vehicle emissions produce large net benefits, rather than costs, when...

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Tax design to reduce passenger vehicle CO2 emissions

Nel, Rudie; Nienaber, Gerhard - In: Meditari Accountancy Research 20 (2012) July, pp. 39-51

on other fiscal reform initiatives aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by passenger vehicles in South Africa. … authors reviewed literature on tax designs to reduce CO2 emissions, and compared the design of current taxes on passenger … vehicles in South Africa to the tax designs most advocated in the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of the current South …

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Design incentives to increase vehicle size created from the U.S. footprint-based fuel economy standards

Whitefoot, Kate S.; Skerlos, Steven J. - In: Energy Policy 41 (2012) C, pp. 402-411

The recently amended U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards determine fuel-economy targets based on the footprint (wheelbase by track width) of vehicles such that larger vehicles have lower fuel-economy targets. This paper considers whether these standards create an incentive for...

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Tax design to reduce passenger vehicle CO 2 emissions

Nel, Rudie; Nienaber, Gerhard - In: Meditari Accountancy Research 20 (2012) 1, pp. 39-51

discussions on other fiscal reform initiatives aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions by passenger vehicles in South Africa. … authors reviewed literature on tax designs to reduce CO 2 emissions, and compared the design of current taxes on passenger … vehicles in South Africa to the tax designs most advocated in the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of the current South …

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The globalisation of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry: lessons for other countries

Marks, Andrew - In: Global Business and Economics Review 11 (2009) 2, pp. 116-140

Protectionism played a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing the growth of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry over a large part of the 20th century. This constituted an integral element of an overall strategy aimed at stimulating manufacturing activity due to the extensive...

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