How to Regulate Co2-Emissions of Passenger Cars in Europe? An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

Regulation of the fuel use per kilometer traveled is an inefficient means of regulating the overall CO2 emissions of passenger cars as part of a general climate protection policy in the European Union (EU). The paper measures the excess costs of fuel standards as compared to carbon taxes using an intertemporal computable general equilibrium model. The paper finds that welfare losses can be reduced to about one third by using fuel taxes instead of relative standards as the policy instrument for carbon abatement.

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  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Boeters, Stefan
  • Bohringer, Christoph
  • Loschela, Andreas
• Conference:
  • 10th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Istanbul , Turkey
  • Date: 2004-7-4 to 2004-7-8
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: 10th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Carbon dioxide; Emission control devices; Exhaust gases; Fuel consumption; Fuel taxes; Passenger transportation; Policy; Policy, legislation and regulation; Pollutants
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Policy; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084994
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 8:14AM