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Davis, Lucas W. - 2016

Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of the automakers' profit maximization problem with unusually-rich nationally representative data on...

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The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation : Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards

Ito, Koichiro - 2014

This paper analyzes "attribute-based regulations," in which regulatory compliance depends upon some secondary attribute that is not the intended target of the regulation. For example, in many countries fuel-economy standards mandate that vehicles have a certain fuel economy, but heavier or...

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Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the Path to Zero Emissions

Borenstein, Severin; Kellogg, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We categorize the primary incentive-based mechanisms under consideration for addressing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation--pricing carbon, setting intensity standards, and subsidizing clean energy--and compare their market outcomes under similar expansions of clean electricity...

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The Welfare Effects of Fuel Conservation Policies in a Dual-Fuel Car Market : Evidence from India

Chugh, Randy - 2014

We estimate a model of vehicle choice and kilometers driven to analyze the long-run impacts of fuel conservation policies in the Indian car market. We simulate the effects of petrol and diesel fuel taxes and a diesel car tax, taking into account their interactions with the pre-existing petrol...

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Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China

Buntaine, Mark T.; Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

public or private citizen appeals treatments when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First …, public appeals to the regulator through social media substantially reduce violations and pollution emissions, while private … appeals increases regulatory effort, suggesting visibility as an important mechanism. Third, treatment pollution reductions …

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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations

Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in vehicle scrappage rates. We leverage the staggered removal of state-level safety inspection programs across the United States within an instrumental variables (IV) framework to...

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Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

Allcott, Hunt - 2017

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing fuel economy information to new vehicle...

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Gasoline Price Uncertainty and the Design of Fuel Economy Standards

Kellogg, Ryan - 2017

What are the implications of gasoline price volatility for the design of fuel economy policies? I show that this problem has a strong parallel to Weitzman's (1974) classic model of using price or quantity controls to regulate an externality. Changes in fuel prices act as shocks to the marginal...

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Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles

Berry, Steven - 1996

This paper focuses on how changes in the economic and regulatory environment have affected production costs and product characteristics in the automobile industry. We estimate cost functions characteristics. Then we examine how this cost surface has changed over time and how these changes relate...

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China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System : A General Equilibrium Assessment

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Long, Xianling; Qu, Chenfei; Zhang, Da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's recently launched CO2 emissions trading system, already the world's largest, aims to contribute importantly toward global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The system, a tradable performance standard (TPS), differs importantly from cap and trade (C&T), the principal emissions...

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