Data for: Hidden regimes and the demand for carbon dioxide from motor-gasoline

Abstract of associated article: Perhaps the most tactile source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions stem from vehicle-use. Because consumers are well aware of their price and quantity decisions it is likely that consumer demand for CO2 emissions from motor-gasoline are quite responsive to the overall state of the economy. Using a structurally identified Markov-switching demand model I find that CO2 emissions respond asymmetrically to changes in income and the price of gasoline in expansionary and contracting states of the economy. The findings of this paper indicate that flexible policy instruments have the potential to mitigate undue burden on consumers and producers compared to their static counterparts.

关联论文摘要：或许，人为二氧化碳（CO₂）排放最直观的来源当属机动车使用。由于消费者清楚自身的燃油消费价格与用量决策，因此消费者对车用汽油相关二氧化碳排放的需求，很可能会对整体经济状况做出显著响应。本文采用结构识别马尔可夫转换（Markov-switching）需求模型，研究发现：在经济扩张与收缩的不同状态下，二氧化碳排放对收入与汽油价格的变化呈现非对称响应。本文研究结果表明，相较于固定型政策工具，灵活型政策工具能够有效减轻消费者与生产者所承受的不当负担。