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This study calculates efficient taxes on fuel and road use designed to combat driving related externalities. The study …
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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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A tax on fuel combined with tax exemptions or subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles is implemented in many countries to fulfill the Paris agreement and to curb mileage-related externalities from road traffic. The present study shows that a tax on fuel should be combined with heavier taxation of...
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Existing work emphasizes the importance of traffic congestion externalities, but typically ignores cruising-for-parking externalities. We introduce a novel methodology to estimate the marginal external cruising costs of parking. The level of cruising is identified by examining to what extent the...
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This paper investigates second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city characterized by distortionary, rigid regulatory mechanisms in the housing market (building height restrictions, zoning and property taxation). The Pigouvian toll is shown to retain its optimality under any setting with...
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optimal carbon taxes on commodities within such rich low-temperature countries when damage inflicted upon poor high …, when foreign aid is hampered by taxes within aid-receiving countries. The article also identifies cases where the Pigouvian …
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Much of the literature on externalities has considered taxes and direct regulation as alternative policy instruments … use of taxes and regulation in combination, to control externalities arising from individual consumption behaviour. We … consider cases where taxes are either imperfectly differentiated to reflect individual differences in externalities, or where …
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