Taxing Automobile Emissions for Pollution Control - Couverture rigide

Sevigny, Maureen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1858987679 ISBN 13 : 9781858987675

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maureen Sevigny, Assistant Professor of Management, Oregon Institute of Technology, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1858987679
• ISBN 13: 9781858987675
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible