Effect of gasoline prices on car fuel efficiency

This paper explores how gasoline prices affect the sales of new and used cars in Lebanon. Using a rich dataset on monthly imported cars from 2000 to 2016, a vector autoregressive analysis is used to model different consumer choices between fuel-efficient cars, midsize cars, and fuel-inefficient cars...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Marrouch, Walid (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Mourad, Jana (author)
التنسيق: article
منشور في: 2019
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/12215
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111001
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421519305889
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الملخص:This paper explores how gasoline prices affect the sales of new and used cars in Lebanon. Using a rich dataset on monthly imported cars from 2000 to 2016, a vector autoregressive analysis is used to model different consumer choices between fuel-efficient cars, midsize cars, and fuel-inefficient cars. We report the first empirical evidence on this question from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using individual automobile data. We use within sample and out-of-sample tests to examine whether gasoline prices influence the sale of fuel-efficient cars. Our results show evidence against the hypothesis that rising gasoline prices shift consumers’ demand toward the most fuel-efficient cars.