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

Under the background of the gradual scarcity of terrestrial resources and the increasingly
fierce competition for global marine resources, the task of green development of marine …

We combine a theoretical discrete-choice model of vehicle purchases, an econometric
analysis of electricity emissions, and the AP2 air pollution model to estimate the geographic …

Behavioral law and economics (BLE) has been broadly regarded in recent years as among
the most promising and exciting new developments in public policymaking theory and …

Changing fuel prices and new energy policy initiatives have heightened interest in the
appropriate level of gasoline taxation. These taxes vary dramatically across countries …

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy
costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality …

Recently the proposal has been made to raise gasoline taxes in the United States to curb
carbon emissions. The existing literature on the sensitivity of gasoline consumption to …

This chapter provides an overview of key economic issues in the use of taxation as an
instrument of environmental policy in the UK. It first reviews economic arguments for using …

We study attribute-based regulations, under which regulatory compliance of a firm, product,
or individual depends on a secondary attribute that is not the intended target of the …

To what extent do car buyers undervalue future fuel costs, and what does this imply for tax
policy? To address both questions, we show it is crucial to account for consumer mileage …