Arbeitspapier
Substitution between Cars within the Household
In this paper we study the demand for car kilometres in two-car households, focusing on the substitution between cars in response to fuel price changes. We use a large sample of detailed Danish data on two-car households to estimate -- for each car owned by the household -- own and cross-price effects of increases in fuel costs per kilometre. The empirical results show that failure to capture substitution between cars within the household can result in substantial misspecification biases. Ignoring substitution, we estimate fuel price elasticities of –0.81 and -0.65 for the primary and secondary cars, respectively. When we do take into account the substitution effect, these figures reduce to, respectively, -0.32 and -0.45. We further estimate an alternative version of the model to test the hypothesis that substitution in response to higher fuel prices will be predom inantly from the least to the most fuel efficient car, finding partial support for the underlying hypothesis. More importantly, the results of this extended model emphasize the importance of behavioural differences related to the position of the most fuel efficient car in the household, suggesting that households’ fuel efficiency choices are related to their price sensitivity.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 13-158/VIII
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices
- Subject
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Fuel efficiency
car use
multiple car ownership
substitution effects
fuel consumption
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Borger, Bruno De
Mulalic, Ismir
Rouwendal, Jan
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Borger, Bruno De
- Mulalic, Ismir
- Rouwendal, Jan
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2013
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