Taxing automobile emissions for pollution control
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Taxing automobile emissions for pollution control
（New horizons in environmental economics）
Edward Elgar, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-111) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This innovative book examines the role an automobile emissions tax could play in reducing emissions in the United States. The author concludes that an emissions tax has the potential to reduce emissions from households vehicles significantly, even when travel demand is relatively price inelastic. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of a first-best tax, a second-best tax on passenger vehicles is developed. This study contains detailed analyses of:
the design of the tax
behavioural responses that lead to emissions reductions, including reductions in the household's vehicle miles of travel and the scrapping of low-value, high emitting vehicles
the effect of the tax on the reduction of emissions
the effect of the tax on households in different income quintiles
the emissions reducing potential of a gasoline tax compared to an emissions tax
This study uses a simulation model to analyse the sensitivity of travel demand and the resulting emissions, to different tax rates and demand elasticities. The author concludes that an emissions tax has the potential to reduce emissions from household vehicles significantly, even when travel demand is relatively price inelastic.
Taxing Automobile Emissions for Pollution Control will prove invaluable to policymakers and academics in the field of environmental management and environmental economics and policy.
Table of Contents
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Designing a Tax on Mobile Source Emissions 3. Effects on Travel Demand and Maintenance 4. The TIERS Model 5. Modelling the Scrappage Effect of the Tax 6. Summary and Conclusions Index
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