Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Environment and Development Economics
Volume
22
Issue
6
Publisher
Cambridge
Publication Date
12-14-2017
Abstract
This paper investigates the role of additional regulation in mitigating the “adverse scale effect” associated with daily driving restrictions, which has become a popular regulatory tool used to control episodic air pollution internationally, especially in developing countries. We find that although an annual vehicle registration tax reduces the incentive to purchase additional vehicles among households whose sole purpose for doing so is to “cheat” the restriction (i.e., the “adverse scale effect”), it does so with an external cost. The cost occurs because households whose purpose for purchasing an additional vehicle is not to cheat the restriction are given the same disincentive with the tax. We show how simple one- and twostage lotteries can be used to not only discriminate between cheater and non-cheater households (in particular, to avoid providing a disincentive to the latter type of household), but also to provide an even stronger disincentive to the former.
Recommended Citation
Caplan, Arthur J. and Kim, Man-Keun, "A Note on Mitigating the Adverse Scale Effects Associated With Daily Driving Restrictions" (2017). Applied Economics Faculty Publications. Paper 1264.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/appecon_facpub/1264
