Road transport imposes negative externalities on society. These externalities include
environmental and road damage, accidents, congestion, and oil dependence. The cost of …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

This paper discusses the nature, and magnitude, of externalities associated with automobile
use, including local and global pollution, oil dependence, traffic congestion and traffic …

This study explores the impact of bicycle-sharing infrastructure on urban transportation. We
estimate a causal effect of the Capital Bikeshare on traffic congestion in the metropolitan …

We examine the impacts of increased US gasoline taxes in a model that links the markets for
new, used, and scrapped vehicles and recognizes the considerable heterogeneity among …

Abstract Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to
varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions …

This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of
promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies' multiple objectives, life-cycle …

This article discusses automobile fuel economy standards in the United States and other
countries. We first describe how these programs affect the automobile market, including …

The world has 1.4 billion passenger vehicles. How should governments regulate their air
pollution emissions? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead …

Exploiting a rich dataset of passenger vehicle registrations in 20 US MSAs from 1997 to
2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We …