Benjamin Leard
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
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This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal as a natural experiment to provide evidence that collective reputation externalities are economically significant. Using a combination of difference-in-differences and demand estimation approaches, we document a spillover effect from the...
May 28, 2019 - Article
A modified program that raise the tax incentive for low-income vehicle buyers and lowered it for high-income buyers could have induced the same increase in overall EV purchases at a smaller revenue cost. Federal tax incentives, which totaled $725 million in 2014, are generally credited for the rapid...
The emissions reductions from the adoption of a new transportation technology depend on the emissions from the new technology relative to those from the displaced technology. We evaluate the emissions reductions from electric vehicles (EVs) by identifying which vehicles would have been purchased had...
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