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How do fuel taxes impact new car purchases? An evaluation using French consumer-level data
This study evaluates the impact of fuel taxes on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly new car registrations in France. We use information on the car holder to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers, and we identify demand parameters through the large oil price fluctuations of this period. We find that the short-term sensitivity of demand with respect to fuel prices is low, particularly for corporate purchases. Using our estimates to compute elasticities, we assess the impact of a policy equalizing diesel and gasoline taxes. Such a policy reduces the share of diesel-engines without substantially changing the average fuel consumption or CO2 intensity of new cars. Alternatively, we find that a (revenue-equivalent) carbon tax has only small effects on average fuel consumption and CO2 intensity of new cars.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Energy Economics ; ISSN: 0140-9883 ; Volume: 74 ; Year: 2018 ; Pages: 76-96 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Automobiles; Other Transportation Equipment; Related Parts and Equipment
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
- Subject
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Fuel prices
Automobile demand
Carbon dioxide emissions
Environmental tax
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Givord, Pauline
Grislain-Letrémy, Céline
Naegele, Helene
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Veröffentlichung
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Elsevier
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
- (where)
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Amsterdam
- (when)
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2018.04.042
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Associated
- Givord, Pauline
- Grislain-Letrémy, Céline
- Naegele, Helene
- Elsevier
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Time of origin
- 2018
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