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Iparpolitika és akkumulátorgyártás Magyarországon és Svédországban
Közgazdasági Szemle, 2023 A tanulmány azt a kérdést vizsgálja, hogy az akkumulátorgyártás magyar gazdaságban betöltött szerepének jelentős kormányzati támogatással történő növekedése mennyire szolgálja Magyarország hosszú távú gazdasági felzárkózását. E kérdés megválaszolásához a
Dóra Győrffy
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Who Benefits When Firms Game Corrective Policies?
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. This harms buyers by eroding information, but it benefits them when cost savings are passed through into prices.
Mathias Reynaert, J. Sallee
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Directing Innovation Towards a Low-carbon Future
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Achieving the ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5°C to 2°C by the end of the century as enacted in the Paris Climate Agreement will require massive investments in environmental technologies and a forceful change of path away from high-carbon ...
J. Noailly
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Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases
, 2013 We investigate whether car buyers are myopic about future fuel costs. We estimate the effect of gasoline prices on short-run equilibrium prices of cars of different fuel economies.
Meghan R. Busse +2 more
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The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 Electric vehicles have a unique potential to transform personal transportation. We analyze this transition with a dynamic model capturing falling costs of electric vehicles, decreasing pollution from electricity, and increasing vehicle substitutability ...
Stephen P. Holland +2 more
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Trade-ins and Transaction Costs in the Market for Used Business Jets
Social Science Research Network, 2022 Manufacturers of durable goods can encourage consumers facing transaction costs to upgrade by accepting used units as trade-ins. These “buyback schemes” increase demand for new units, but increase the supply of used units if trade-ins are resold.
Charles Hodgson
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Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and Tax Policy: Evidence from the European Car Market
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 To what extent do car buyers undervalue future fuel costs, and what does this imply for tax policy? To address both questions, we show it is crucial to account for consumer mileage heterogeneity.
Laura Grigolon +2 more
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Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017 It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing
Hunt Allcott, Christopher R. Knittel
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Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 A central question in the analysis of fuel economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on the consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment that provides exogenous ...
Kenneth Gillingham +2 more
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The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, 2020 Behavioral economists have proposed that incentive contracts result in higher productivity when bonuses are “loss framed”—prepaid then clawed back if targets are unmet. We test this claim by randomizing the pre- or postpayment of sales bonuses at 294 car
L. Pierce +2 more
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