Search Results - subject:"private car transport"

The impact of climate policy on private car ownership in Ireland

Hennessy, Hugh; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010

We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is build up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated to recent data on actual stock. We complement the data on the number of...

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The impact of tax reform on new car purchases in Ireland

Hennessy, Hugh; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010

We examine the impact of recent tax reforms in Ireland on private car transport and its greenhouse gas emissions. A … shifted from car ownership to car use, and that the overall tax burden on private car transport falls. As diesel engines are …

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The impact of tax reform on new car purchases in Ireland

Hennessy, Hugh; Tol, Richard S.J. - In: Energy Policy 39 (2011) 11, pp. 7059-7067

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