Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden
Policy measures in the transport sector have been widely debated during the recent decades, specifically in terms of increasing carbon emissions from passenger transport. Fuel taxes is receiving most receptive consideration by governments, although households tend to respond little to these measures...
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SLU/Dept. of Economics
2016
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| author | Dahlkvist, Emma |
| author_browse | Dahlkvist, Emma |
| author_facet | Dahlkvist, Emma |
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| description | Policy measures in the transport sector have been widely debated during the recent decades, specifically in terms of increasing carbon emissions from passenger transport. Fuel taxes is receiving most receptive consideration by governments, although households tend to respond little to these measures, especially in rural regions. The aim of this paper, which focuses at the gasoline consumption among households, is to develop a model to estimate price and income elasticities in rural and urban regions in Sweden. While obtaining overall price elasticity to be within the range of previous studies, I find that there is a significant variation in price elasticities across regions. As a consequence, these differences might result in unwanted distributive effects. |
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| id | RepoSLU9487 |
| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2016 |
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| publisher | SLU/Dept. of Economics |
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| spelling | RepoSLU94872016-08-31T14:55:03Z Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden Dahlkvist, Emma distributional effects fuel tax gasoline price elasticity income elasticity Policy measures in the transport sector have been widely debated during the recent decades, specifically in terms of increasing carbon emissions from passenger transport. Fuel taxes is receiving most receptive consideration by governments, although households tend to respond little to these measures, especially in rural regions. The aim of this paper, which focuses at the gasoline consumption among households, is to develop a model to estimate price and income elasticities in rural and urban regions in Sweden. While obtaining overall price elasticity to be within the range of previous studies, I find that there is a significant variation in price elasticities across regions. As a consequence, these differences might result in unwanted distributive effects. SLU/Dept. of Economics 2016 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/9487/ |
| spellingShingle | distributional effects fuel tax gasoline price elasticity income elasticity Dahlkvist, Emma Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title | Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title_full | Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title_fullStr | Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title_full_unstemmed | Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title_short | Elasticity of demand for gasoline in Sweden |
| title_sort | elasticity of demand for gasoline in sweden |
| topic | distributional effects fuel tax gasoline price elasticity income elasticity |