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Is it environmentally desirable to encourage public transport through taxes? Evidence for Spanish households

There are studies that suggests that the use of environmental taxes to promote the consumption of 'clean goods' could have unwanted effects in that it leads to the consumption of 'dirty goods'. The results will depend on the multiple effects of cross-price elasticities. This paper illustrates the above hypothesis as applied to earth transport consumption in Spanish households. Using microdata for Spanish households, we firstly estimate an AIDS model for 16 groups of goods and services. And secondly simulate two alternative revenue-neutral tax reforms in which the relative price of public transport, in terms of private transport, is reduced between 1 and 2%. The results confirm Sandmo's hypothesis. With both reforms, fuel consumption (as measure of private transport use) increases and public transport consumption decreases. The consequence in each case is a net increase in CO2 emissions per household. So, fiscal reforms of this kind do not seem to be effective to improve the environmental performance of passengers earth transport sector in Spain.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Cogent Economics & Finance ; ISSN: 2332-2039 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-9 ; Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Thema
transport
environmental taxes
household
AIDS model

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Romero-Jordán, Desiderio
Sanz, José Félix
Burguillo, Mercedes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Taylor & Francis
(wo)
Abingdon
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.1080/23322039.2014.946999
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Romero-Jordán, Desiderio
  • Sanz, José Félix
  • Burguillo, Mercedes
  • Taylor & Francis

Entstanden

  • 2014

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