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Title: | Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact |
Author: | Bernardo, Valeria Fageda, Xavier, 1975- Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi |
Keywords: | Impostos Viatges aeris Canvi climàtic Impacte ambiental Taxation Air travel Climatic change Environmental impact |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2024 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
Abstract: | We examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-in-differences approach considering potential bias of the standard two-way fixed effects and the potential distorting effects of heterogeneities between treated and control routes. The main analysis focuses on low-cost airlines because connecting passengers are typically excluded from the tax. We find that flight ticket taxes have a significant overall effect on low-costs airlines supply and derived emissions: ticket taxes reduce the number of flights per airline-route by 12% on average compared to the counterfactual scenario, resulting in a 14% reduction in carbon emissions. In addition, we estimate a pricing equation using a quantile model to identify the cost pass-through rate over the distribution of the fare variable. The burden of the tax is higher for passengers paying low fares, so taxes have a stronger effect on avoidable flights with less added value and a smaller internalization of the total costs of flying. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892 |
It is part of: | Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2024, vol. 179, núm. 103892 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/213385 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892 |
ISSN: | 0965-8564 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) |
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