KEEP YOUR CLUNKER IN THE SUBURB: LOW-EMISSION ZONES AND ADOPTION OF GREEN VEHICLES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wolff, Hendrik
• 署名单位: University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12091
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: F481-F512
• 关键词: air-pollution; particulate matter; mortality; QUALITY; Europe; HEALTH; IMPACT; pm10

摘要

Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. We study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: low-emission zones (LEZs) are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low levels of PM10. Using new administrative data sets from Germany, we assess the effect of LEZs on air pollution and the spatial substitution effects in green versus dirty vehicles. Back of the envelope calculations suggest that health benefits of roughly 2 billion dollars have come at a cost of 1 billion dollars for upgrading the fleet of vehicles.