When tax incentives drive illicit behavior: The manipulation of fuel economy in the automobile industry
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Keywords
Fuel economy gap; Feebate policy; Manipulation; Automobile industry;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- L62 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Automobiles; Other Transportation Equipment; Related Parts and Equipment
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
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