calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects of alternative pollution control policies such as taxes on gasoline, on … characteristics. We find expected signs for coefficients on price and income. Car choices are relatively inelastic, however, either to … taxes on cars or to taxes on gas or distance. Thus emissions are more affected by taxes on gasoline than by taxes on …

Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel …

reflects both the high pre-existing tax on petrol fuel and the high own-price elasticities of fuel demand in India. A tax on …

What are the implications of gasoline price volatility for the design of fuel economy policies? I show that this … bind if the realized gasoline price is sufficiently high. Instead, the optimal fixed standard will be relatively relaxed … and may be non-binding even at the expected gasoline price. Finally, I show that although an attribute-based standard …

the gasoline tax with a household-level VMT tax would increase the average tax burden on households in the top income and … consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more …

expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …-efficient quartiles of new cars by +20% and -24%, respectively. In contrast, the same gasoline price increase changes the market shares of …

to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline … estimates suggest that a 10% increase in gasoline prices from 2005 levels will generate a 0.22% increase in fleet fuel economy …