This study calculates efficient taxes on fuel and road use designed to combat driving related externalities. The study …

Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing … gasoline would be progressive, its effect through spending on diesel—both directly and via bus transportation—would be … bus transportation would be relatively small, albeit regressive. Finally, we find that although the overall effect of a 10 …

Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing … gasoline would be progressive, its effect through spending on diesel--both directly and via bus transportation--would be … bus transportation would be relatively small, albeit regressive. Finally, we find that although the overall effect of a 10 …

This paper develops an analytical framework for estimating the marginal excess burden (MEB) of taxes on labor, gasoline …, cigarettes and alcohol, allowing for externalities and interactions between the different taxes. The formulas are estimated using … likelihood that the MEB of one tax exceeds that of other taxes. We find that the MEB of labor taxes lies between 0.18 and 0 …

optimal carbon taxes on commodities within such rich low-temperature countries when damage inflicted upon poor high …, when foreign aid is hampered by taxes within aid-receiving countries. The article also identifies cases where the Pigouvian …

provide calculations of the optimal taxes for the United States and the United Kingdom under a wide variety of parameter …

Gasoline taxes are widely perceived as the most efficient instrument for reducing gasoline consumption because they …, however, higher fuel taxes are viewed as a political nonstarter. Pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) auto insurance, which involves …

passenger transportation in Mexico City. The model incorporates travel by auto, microbus, public bus, and rail, plus …