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 …

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 …

different fuel economies change in response to shocks to the price of gasoline, we estimate the relationship between vehicle …, and therefore different remaining lifetimes. By seeing how price differences across high and low mileage vehicles of …