Energy efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions standards apply to many consumer
durables, such as refrigerators and passenger vehicles. Welfare analysis of these standards …

ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND VEHICLE MARKET Yujie Lin Doctor of
Philosophy, 2022 Department of Agricultural and Page 1 ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation …

Fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards cover about half of all vehicles
globally. The US regulatory agencies predicted that standards for 2012 through 2016, which …

Like many energy efficiency standards, passenger vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse
gas standards apply to new but not used products. In theory, such vintage differentiated …

Voluntary environmental certification programs have been a popular tool used by
governments, industry groups, and nonprofit organizations alike. A central question in the …

Energy efficiency standards based on product attributes may interact with market conditions
and affect the overall stringency of the standards. In this paper we analyze the interaction …

This paper assumes that consumers are willing to pay an extra premium for a good if it has a
low impact on the environment. We examine if a little dose of such idealistic behavior has a …

A key finding in the literature is that the greater the pass-through of an input cost shock or tax
to product prices, the larger the welfare loss to consumers. We show that the relationship …

This paper presents welfare and distributional effects of US passenger vehicle fuel economy
and greenhouse gas standards between 2012 and 2022. We build an equilibrium model …

Résumé/abstract This paper studies the impact of environmental policies when firms can
adjust product design as they see fit. In particular, it considers cross relationships between …