B_Is it environmentally desirable to encourage public transport through taxes? Evidence for Spanish Households.
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/58720DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2014.946999
ISSN: 2332-2039
Date
2014-09-04Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
Cogent Economics and Finance, 2014, v. 2, p. 1-9
Keywords
Transport
Environmental taxes
Household
AIDS model
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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© los autores
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
There are studies that suggests that the use of environmental taxes to
promote the consumption of "clean goods" could have unwanted effects in that it
leads to the consumption of "dirty goods". The results will depend on the multiple
effects of cross-price elasticities. This paper illustrates the above hypothesis as
applied to earth transport consumption in Spanish households. Using microdata
for Spanish households, we firstly estimate an AIDS model for 16 groups of goods
and services. And secondly simulate two alternative revenue-neutral tax reforms in
which the relative price of public transport, in terms of private transport, is reduced
between 1 and 2%. The results confirm Sandmo"s hypothesis. With both reforms,
fuel consumption (as measure of private transport use) increases and public transport
consumption decreases. The consequence in each case is a net increase in CO2
emissions per household. So, fiscal reforms of this kind do not seem to be effective
to improve the environmental performance of passengers earth transport sector in
Spain.
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