Vehicle price and hydrocarbon emissions: evidence from the used-vehicle markets

Okmyung Bin and Carlos Martins-Filho

Applied Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 15, issue 12, 939-943

Abstract: This study examines how used-vehicle markets responded to the automobile hydrocarbon emissions by linking used-vehicle price to the large scale emission test data that contain 74 vehicle models manufactured over 18 years. An additive semiparametric hedonic model is estimated to analyse the relationship between vehicle price and hydrocarbon emissions. The estimation procedure is novel and involves a local polynomial estimator nested in a backfitting algorithm with the bandwidths chosen by a data-driven plug-in method. The results indicate that hydrocarbon emissions have a significant negative impact on vehicle price, but the negative association is evident only at low emission levels. The price discount appears to be unrelated to the increased costs from recent emission regulations that mainly target high-polluting vehicles.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850600972303

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