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distance, or on particular cars. Given choices about cars and distance, we also calculate emissions. Since we model … taxes on cars or to taxes on gas or distance. Thus emissions are more affected by taxes on gasoline than by taxes on …Yet taxes on cars have lower costs on consumers and thus lower marginal cost of abatement. Given that the existing gas …
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This article investigates the impact of a number of policy manipulable variables on the motor vehicle mortality rate of white males between the ages of 15 to 24. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of alcohol. Utilizing data for the tune period 1970 to 1975, multivariate equations are...
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This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half...
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U.S. and the rest of the world is due to price frictions such as markups, tariffs, and trade costs, while the remaining …
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of EVs would have, on average, purchased relative fuel-efficient gasoline-powered cars had they not gone electric. The …
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, because of their salience and the transaction costs, cars are particularly sensitive to changes in the perception of fu- ture …
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Notches --- where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in a tax or subsidy --- figure prominently in many policies, but have been rarely examined by economists. In this paper, we analyze a class of notches associated with policies aimed at improving vehicle fuel economy. We provide...
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at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50 percent … both passenger cars, while Volvo is the most efficient manufacturer of light duty trucks. However, I also find that over … time, US manufacturers' relative efficiency in both passenger cars and light trucks has degraded. These results may provide …
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This paper focuses on how changes in the economic and regulatory environment have affected production costs and product characteristics in the automobile industry. We estimate cost functions characteristics. Then we examine how this cost surface has changed over time and how these changes relate...
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provides econometric estimates of what would have happened had the threatened 100 percent tariff on Japanese luxury cars not …
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