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displacement between foreign and domestic consumption. When relative prices increase by 1%, the relative cross-border demand …
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Least-squares estimates of the response of gasoline consumption to a change in the gasoline price are biased toward … zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument for gasoline … prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We demonstrate that …
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months, starting on 1 June 2022. Using the synthetic control method to compare actual prices of gasoline and diesel to those …
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We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences … across U.S. states in the pass-through of oil price shocks to retail gasoline prices. We show that these differences are … primarily driven by the cost of producing and distributing gasoline, which varies with states' access to oil and gasoline …
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This article exploits both the crude oil price surge consecutive to the invasion of Ukraine and 2022 fuel excise tax rebates in France as quasi-natural experiments to infer the price sensitivity of fuel demand. Based on granular individual bank account data at the transaction level, we properly...
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We analyze welfare implications of policies promoting environmentally friendly vehicles employing rich Swiss micro-data on 23,000 newly purchased cars and their buyers. Our estimates reveal substantial income heterogeneity in price elasticity and electric vehicle (EV) adoption. While CO2 levies...
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We identify and examine a novel welfare channel of fuel economy standards through the in-teraction with public transit and households’ location choices. A stricter emission standard for cars decreases the marginal cost of driving and triggers a shift in modal choice from public to private...
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Our main message is that it is optimal to use less coal and more oil once one takes account of coal being a backstop which emits much more CO2 than oil. The way of achieving this is to have a steeply rising carbon tax during the initial oil-only phase, a less-steeply rising carbon tax during the...
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This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when … motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian … rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate on gasoline is below the efficient tax rate while the current UK rate …
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newspapers. We further show that gasoline-to-diesel substitution substantially mediates the trade-off between climate and health …
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