We analyze welfare implications of policies promoting environmentally friendly vehicles
employing rich Swiss micro-data on 23,000 newly purchased cars and their buyers. Our …

We analyze the long-term effects on the car fleet and welfare distribution of three car-related
policy instruments intended to reduce CO2 emissions: increased fossil-fuel taxes, an …

Passenger cars account for most road transportation emissions, and almost half of overall
transport sector emissions in the EU. Countries in Europe have established policies to …

We investigate how an increase in the rate of purchase tax for internal combustion engine
vehicles (ICEVs) in China affects sales of ICEVs and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) …

I quantify the welfare and environmental gains and losses from a policy establishing an
environmental tax/subsidy for new cars in France in 2008. I estimate a structural model of …

Vehicle taxation based on CO 2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide to shift
consumer purchases to low‐carbon cars, yet evidence on its effectiveness and economic …

We review what is known about the economic efficiency of fuel taxes relative to efficiency
standards aimed at mitigating environmental externalities from cars. We present a simplified …

More than 15 million cars are provided as fringe benefits by employers in Europe. The
company car market is the driving force of changes in European car fleets and one of the …

Economic theory suggests that the environmental externalities created by driving cars can
be corrected by imposing taxes. In this paper we focus on one possible such tax, namely an …

Many countries have adopted policies designed to reduce CO2 emissions from road
vehicles. Taxes linked to the CO2 emissions rate or the fuel economy of a vehicle (which is …