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作者：Verboven, Frank
作者单位：KU Leuven
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作者：Huse, Cristian; Lucinda, Claudio
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Universidade de Sao Paulo
摘要：We quantify the effects of the Swedish Green Car Rebate (GCR), a programme to reduce oil dependence and greenhouse gas emissions in the automobile industry. We find the GCR increases the market shares of 'green cars' and its cost to be $109/ton CO2 saved, thus five times the price of an emission permit. Since the main green cars in Sweden are flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs), which can switch between petrol (gasoline) and ethanol, we also account for fuel choice, which increases the cost of the p...
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作者：McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah
作者单位：University of Bristol; Imperial College London
摘要：Using a tried and tested measure of management practices that has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and that departments in older, research-intensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching-oriented universities. We also find that management matters in universities. The scores, particularly with respect to provision of incentives for ...
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作者：D'Haultfaeuille, Xavier; Givord, Pauline; Boutin, Xavier
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris
摘要：A feebate on the purchase of new cars, the Bonus/Malus, was introduced in France in 2008. Less polluting cars benefited from a price reduction of up to 1,000 euro, whereas the most polluting ones were subject to a taxation of 2,600 euro. We estimate the impact of this policy on carbon dioxide emissions in the short and long run. If the shift towards the classes benefiting from rebates is considerable, we estimate the environmental impact of the policy to be negative. While feebates may be effi...
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作者：Wolff, Hendrik
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
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 calcula...
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作者：Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; Schmeidler, David
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Tel Aviv University; University of Pennsylvania; Yale University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：People often wonder why economists analyse models whose assumptions are known to be false, while economists feel that they learn a lot from such exercises. We suggest that part of the knowledge generated by academic economists is case-based rather than rule-based. That is, instead of offering general rules or theories that should be contrasted with data, economists often analyse models that are 'theoretical cases', which help understand economic problems by drawing analogies between the model ...
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作者：Adamou, Adamos; Clerides, Sofronis; Zachariadis, Theodoros
作者单位：University of Cyprus; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Cyprus University of Technology
摘要：Vehicle taxation based on CO2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide to shift consumer purchases to low-carbon cars, yet evidence on its effectiveness and economic impact is limited. We focus on feebate schemes, which impose a fee on high-carbon vehicles and give a rebate to low-carbon cars. We estimate demand for passenger cars in Germany and simulate the impact of alternative feebate schemes on emissions, consumer welfare, public revenues and firm profits. We find that revenue-neu...
