Optimal Fuel Taxes and Heterogeneity of Cities

Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s10037-014-0095-z

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“…Impact on vehicle ownership and usage Anas and Hiramatsu (2012), Dahl (1995), Feng et al (2013), Gillingham et al (2013), Goodwin (1992), Goodwin et al (2004), Golob and Van Wissen (1989), Glaister (2002, 2004), Linn (2013) Fiscal effects and economic efficiency Antón-Sarabia and Hernández-Trillo (2014), De Borger (2001), De Borger and Mayeres (2007), Hirte and Tscharaktschiew (2015), Lin and Prince (2009), Mayeres and Proost (2013), Parry (2008Parry ( , 2011Parry ( , 2012, Parry and Small (2005), Parry andTimilsina (2010, 2015), Storchmann (2001), Tscharaktschiew (2014), West and Williams (2007) Distributional impacts Bento et al (2009), Metcalf (1999), Parry and Williams (2010), Poterba (1991), Sterner (2012), Walls and Hanson (1999), West and Williams (2004) Environmental impacts Austin and Dinan (2005), Fullerton and Gan (2005), Proost and Van Dender (2012), Steiner and Cludius (2010), Sterner (2007), Tscharaktschiew and Hirte (2012) Table 2 Overview electric mobility literature.…”

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How much should gasoline be taxed when electric vehicles conquer the market? An analysis of the mismatch between efficient and existing gasoline taxes under emerging electric mobility

Tscharaktschiew

2015

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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How much should gasoline be taxed when electric vehicles conquer the market? An analysis of the mismatch between efficient and existing gasoline taxes under emerging electric mobility

Tscharaktschiew

2015

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…37 Evidence suggests that the salience of a tax or price change matters and is determined, in part, by its messaging (Dudley, 2013;Uskul and Oyserman, 2010). In the case of fuel taxes (Li et al, 2014) and climate policy (Hirte and Tscharaktschiew, 2015), messaging may increase sensitivity to a price change by up to 70%.…”

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“…Parry and Small (2005) derive the optimal gasoline taxes for the US and Britain, accounting for congestion, accidents, carbon emissions and air pollution, and Antón-Sarabia and Hernández-Trillo (2014) apply it to Mexico. Sterner (2012) compares the optimality of fuel taxes in Europe and US, West and Williams III (2007) estimate an optimal fuel tax and its influence on labour supply in the US, and Hirte and Tscharaktschiew (2015) compare the fuel tax composition across US states and cities. Fuel taxes vary considerably between countries.…”

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Optimal Fuel Taxation With Suboptimal Health Choices

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Transport has a large number of significant externalities including carbon emissions, air pollution, accidents, and congestion. Active travel such as cycling and walking can reduce these externalities. Moreover, public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel due to health benefits of increased physical exercise. In fact, on a per mile basis, these benefits dominate the external social costs from car use by two orders of magnitude. We introduce health benefits and active travel options into an optimal taxation model of transport externalities to study appropriate policy responses. We characterise the optimal second-best fuel tax analytically: when physical exercise is considered welfare-enhancing, the optimal fuel tax increases. Under central parameter assumptions it rises by 49% in the US and 36% in the UK. This is due to the low fuel price elasticity of active travel. We argue that fuel taxes should be implemented jointly with other policies aimed at increasing the uptake of active travel to reap its full health benefits.

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“…welfare costs of non-market goods. 1 To date, externality costs have been used in different areas, for example within policy development for estimating optimal gasoline taxes in the U.S. 9 or potential subsidies for promoting sustainable agriculture in the UK, 10 but externality costs have never been used in a SWM life-cycle optimization framework, although these costs could potentially have profound influence on the selection of SWM strategies.…”

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Evaluation of Externality Costs in Life-Cycle Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems

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Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The development of sustainable solid waste management (SWM) systems requires consideration of both economic and environmental impacts. Societal life-cycle costing (S-LCC) provides a quantitative framework to estimate both economic and environmental impacts, by including "budget costs" and "externality costs". Budget costs include market goods and services (economic impact), whereas externality costs include effects outside the economic system (e.g., environmental impact). This study demonstrates the applicability of S-LCC to SWM life-cycle optimization through a case study based on an average suburban U.S. county of 500 000 people generating 320 000 Mg of waste annually. Estimated externality costs are based on emissions of CO, CH, NO, PM, PM, NO, SO, VOC, CO, NH, Hg, Pb, Cd, Cr (VI), Ni, As, and dioxins. The results indicate that incorporating S-LCC into optimized SWM strategy development encourages the use of a mixed waste material recovery facility with residues going to incineration, and separated organics to anaerobic digestion. Results are sensitive to waste composition, energy mix and recycling rates. Most of the externality costs stem from SO, NO, PM, CH, fossil CO, and NH emissions. S-LCC proved to be a valuable tool for policy analysis, but additional data on key externality costs such as organic compounds emissions to water would improve future analyses.

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Optimal Fuel Taxes and Heterogeneity of Cities

Cited by 9 publications

References 59 publications

How much should gasoline be taxed when electric vehicles conquer the market? An analysis of the mismatch between efficient and existing gasoline taxes under emerging electric mobility

How much should gasoline be taxed when electric vehicles conquer the market? An analysis of the mismatch between efficient and existing gasoline taxes under emerging electric mobility

Optimal Fuel Taxation With Suboptimal Health Choices

Evaluation of Externality Costs in Life-Cycle Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems

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