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on Transport Economics |
| By: | World Bank |
| Keywords: | Urban Transport Urban Development - Transport in Urban Areas Roads and Highways Private Sector Development - E-Business Transport Economics Policy and Planning Transport |
| Date: | 2014–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:21319&r=tre |
| By: | Ito, Yutaka; Managi, Shunsuke |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the economic validity of the diffusion of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and all-electric vehicles (EVs), employing a cost-benefit analysis from the social point of view. This research assumes the amount of NOx and tank-to-wheel CO2 emissions and gasoline use reduction as the benefits and the purchase costs, infrastructure expenses, and maintenance costs of alternative vehicles as the costs of switching internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to alternative energy vehicles. In addition, this study conducts a sensitivity analysis considering cost reductions in FCV and EV production and increasing costs for CO2 abatement as well as increasing gasoline prices. In summary, the results show that the diffusion of FCVs is not economically beneficial until 2110, even if the FCV purchase cost decreases to that of an ICE vehicle. EV diffusion might be beneficial by 2060 depending on increases in gasoline prices and CO2 abatement costs. |
| Keywords: | Fuel cell vehicle; Electric vehicle; Cost benefit analysis; Sensitivity analysis |
| JEL: | D61 Q42 Q55 R49 |
| Date: | 2015–02–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:62362&r=tre |
| By: | Julian Donaubauer; Birgit Meyer; Peter Nunnekamp |
| Abstract: | We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account for dependencies between three structural equations on the allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and robust evidence that targeted aid promotes FDI indirectly through the infrastructure channel. In addition, aid in infrastructure appears to have surprisingly strong direct effects on FDI. |
| Keywords: | aid effectiveness, sector-specific aid, foreign direct investment, infrastructure |
| JEL: | F21 F35 O18 |
| Date: | 2015–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wsr:wpaper:y:2015:i:144&r=tre |
| By: | Moctar,Ndiaye; d?Hôtel Elodie,Maitre; Tristan,Le Cotty |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses the role of market remoteness in explaining maize price volatility in Burkina Faso. A model of price formation is introduced to demonstrate formally that transport costs between urban and rural markets exacerbate maize price volatility. Empirical support is provided to the proposition by exploring an unusually rich data set of monthly maize price series across 28 markets over 2004-13. The methodology relies on an autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model to investigate the statistical effect of road quality and distance from urban consumption centers on maize price volatility. The analysis finds that maize price volatility is greatest in remote markets. The results also show that maize-surplus markets and markets bordering Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Togo have experienced more volatile prices than maize-deficit and non-bordering markets. The findings suggest that enhancing road infrastructure would strengthen the links between rural markets and major consumption centers, thereby also stabilizing maize prices. |
| Keywords: | Debt Markets,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Transport Economics Policy&Planning,Emerging Markets |
| Date: | 2015–02–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7202&r=tre |
| By: | Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten |
| Abstract: | By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce emissions and vertical equity, which refers to the idea that people with a greater ability to pay taxes should pay more. |
| Keywords: | energy taxes,environmental taxes,energy demand,emissions,tax incidence,redistribution,inequality |
| JEL: | C31 D12 D63 H22 H23 I3 K32 Q21 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:fubsbe:20156&r=tre |
| By: | Benkard, Lanier (Stanford University); Bodoh-Creed, Aaron (?); Lazarev, John (?) |
| Date: | 2014–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:stabus:3005&r=tre |