Will a kilometre tax in Sweden affect its sawmill industry? A note

The paper offers quantitative ‘worst case’ assessments of expected effects of a kilometre tax in Sweden covering the sawmill industry using available price elasticities. The results, assuming that sawmills pay the whole tax burden, indicate that production losses in the industry would follow the imp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Transportation research. Part D, Transport and environment Transport and environment, 2007-10, Vol.12 (7), p.519-522
Main Author: Hammar, Henrik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Environmental policy
Forest industry
Kilometre tax
Marginal cost pricing
Road freight transport
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The paper offers quantitative ‘worst case’ assessments of expected effects of a kilometre tax in Sweden covering the sawmill industry using available price elasticities. The results, assuming that sawmills pay the whole tax burden, indicate that production losses in the industry would follow the implementation of such a tax.
ISSN:1361-9209
1879-2340
DOI:10.1016/j.trd.2007.05.005