This paper shows that cities made more compact by transportation taxation are more robust than spread-out cities to … shocks in transportation costs. Such a shock, indeed, entails negative transition effects that are caused by housing … infrastructure inertia and are magnified in low-density cities. Distortions due to a transportation tax, however, have in absence of …

Transportation accounts for a substantial share of CO2 emissions, and decarbonizing transport will be necessary to … are relatively inflexible in their reaction to climate policies. Across all models, transportation mitigation lags behind …

database of vehicle-specific taxes in 15 EU countries over 2001-2010 to construct a measure for the vehicle registration and … annual road tax levels, and separately, for the CO2 sensitivity of these taxes. We find that for many countries the fiscal … of fiscal policies on the CO2 emissions of the new car fleet. The increased CO2-sensitivity of registration taxes have …