| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w23024
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 23024
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| Gasoline Price Uncertainty and the Design of Fuel Economy Standards |
| Ryan Kellogg
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| 发表日期 | 2017-01-09
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | What are the implications of gasoline price volatility for the design of fuel economy policies? I show that this problem has a strong parallel to Weitzman's (1974) classic model of using price or quantity controls to regulate an externality. Changes in fuel prices act as shocks to the marginal cost of complying with the standard. Assuming constant marginal damages from fuel consumption, an application of Weitzman (1974) implies that a fixed fuel economy standard reduces expected welfare relative to a “price” policy such as a feebate or, equivalently, a fuel economy standard that is indexed to the price of gasoline. When the regulator is constrained to use a fixed standard, I show that the usual approach to setting the standard—equate expected marginal compliance cost to marginal damage—is likely to be sub-optimal because the standard may not bind if the realized gasoline price is sufficiently high. Instead, the optimal fixed standard will be relatively relaxed and may be non-binding even at the expected gasoline price. Finally, I show that although an attribute-based standard allows vehicle choices to flexibly respond to gasoline price shocks, the resulting distortions imply that the optimal fuel economy standard is not attribute-based. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Taxation
; Industrial Organization
; Regulatory Economics
; Industry Studies
; Environmental and Resource Economics
; Energy
; Environment
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23024
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580697
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