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This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when … motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian …
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A tax on fuel combined with tax-exemptions or subsidies for purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative externalities from road traffic. This study, however, shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier...
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Soda taxes are meant to improve public health outcomes insofar as they curb consumption of sugary beverages and thus … the effects of soda taxes on consumption and price by volume and sugar content. I find that sugar intake fell as a …
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Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing … gasoline would be progressive, its effect through spending on diesel - both directly and via bus transportation - would be … bus transportation would be relatively small, albeit regressive. Finally, we find that although the overall effect of a 10 …
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transportation sector, i.e. taxes on fuel that are not calculated based on actual CO2content but which raise the implicit price of … evaluating these policies is not available yet. Consequently, we use the imposition quasi-carbon-taxes in the German …
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Effective carbon taxation is essential to achieving the green transition. However, there is typically stiff opposition to carbon taxation due to perceived or actual adverse equity and other impacts. Hence, a better understanding of which factors, including the use of tax revenue, can increase...
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Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation … consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more … gas taxes declines with expenditures much less than the share of income spent on gas taxes declines with income. Replacing …
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This paper exploits the introduction of the German carbon tax in 2021 as well as excise tax rebates on fuel in both France and Germany, consecutive to the 2022 oil crisis, to infer how fuel tourism responds to changes in relative prices. Based on French high-frequency transaction-level data...
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transportation and energy taxes than liberal areas, heterogeneity in the response to economic burdens has important implications for …In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and … the popular support for environmental taxes and the ongoing policy debate about how to finance future road infrastructure …
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effectiveness of fuel taxes to deliver climate and health benefits. …
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