.208 and 0.261. The estimates are used to calibrate a simple model of the efficiency cost of tax-induced distortions, implying … that a 15% tax reduces social efficiency by between 3% and 25% of the revenue raised …

great power of influence of the tax on the gasoline’s price and on the costumer’s choice between ethanol or gasoline. Thus …The aim of this paper is to identify the path of the gasoline price elasticity, ethanol price elasticity, ethanol-gasoline … cross-price elasticity and the gasoline-ethanol cross-price elasticity for the flex-fuel vehicle market, as well as to …

"Notches --- where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in a tax or subsidy --- figure prominently in many …