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The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
Holland, Stephen P. - 2020
Electric vehicles have a unique potential to transform personal transportation. We analyze the transition to electric vehicles with a dynamic model that captures the falling costs of producing electric vehicles, the decreasing pollution from electricity generation, the increasing...
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What Does an Electric Vehicle Replace?
Xing, Jianwei - 2019
The emissions reductions from the adoption of a new transportation technology depend on the emissions from the new technology relative to those from the displaced technology. We evaluate the emissions reductions from electric vehicles (EVs) by identifying which vehicles would have been purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479721
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Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicles (Relative to the Car that Wasn’t Bought)
Muehlegger, Erich - 2020
The true net environmental benefit of an electric vehicle (EV) is measured relative to the vehicle that an EV buyer would have bought and driven had they not opted for an EV. This "counterfactual" vehicle cannot be observed, but its fuel economy can be estimated. We use quasi-experimental...
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460065
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Automobiles on Steroids : Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2009
New car fleet fuel economy, weight and engine power have changed drastically since 1980. These changes represent both movements along and shifts in the "fuel economy/weight/engine power production possibilities frontier". This paper estimates the technological progress that has occurred since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463487
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Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time : Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet
Sanders, Nicholas J. - 2017
Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through mandated vehicle inspections and repairs. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. To test for a...
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Markup Adjustment and Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Evidence From Panel Data on Automobile Exports
Gagnon, Joseph E. - 1992
This paper uses bilateral automobile export unit values from the United States, Germany and Japan to measure the …
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984
.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477833
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 1997
explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …
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