Showing 1 - 10 of 119
Vehicle taxation based on CO2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide in order to shift consumer purchases to … emissions, consumer welfare, public revenues and firm profits. The analysis shows that a well-designed scheme can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282972
In this paper we analyze the impact of service station availability on the demand for alternative-fuel vehicles and the consumers' willingness to pay for an enlarged fueling infrastructure. We examine a stated preferences choice experiment conducted as a CAPI survey with about 600 interviews of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298664
In 2002, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) introduced a Notice on the Competitive Treatment of Vertical Restraints in Automobile Trade ('Car Notice'). The objective of the Car Notice has been to strengthen competition in the Swiss car market, in particular by avoiding price-fixing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304729
We study the effects of the car scrapping subsidies in Europe during the financial crisis. We make use of a rich data set of all car models sold in nine European countries, observed at a monthly level during 2005-2011.We employ a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324138
This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design … are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in the effective price of fuel, which is the path by which emissions … occur in response to the treatment of an emissions externality that is currently unaddressed, they represent efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271852
myopic or not able to commit themselves to sustainable policies or costs of reducing emissions are too high, strategic … future treaty. Although no player will rationally reduce emissions on its own, investments in R&D by at least one player can … change the strategic situation of negotiations to control emissions: Emission abatement costs will decrease so that a treaty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307168
production and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Although the agricultural sector is largely responsible for emissions of GHG, due … with GHG emissions in livestock production is proposed, an indicator to classify the importance of productive activities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146717
needed to support the social optimum. We then analyze the effects of these taxes on urban spatial structure. Emissions are … heights, generating a more-compact city with a lower level of emissions per capita. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790076
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) theory of the firm states that, in strategic markets, social actions lead to a prisoner's dilemma. This paper develops a model with pollution externalities and environmental taxation to incentivise firms' abatement activities through green R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514475
Empirical analyses that rely on micro-level panel data have found that exporters are generally less pollutant than non-exporters. While alternative explanations have been proposed, firm level data has not been used to examine the role of destination markets behind the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518091