tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post9205173125647185608..comments2023-11-19T20:38:50.237-08:00Comments on Economic Logic: About the strange response of consumers to gas tax increasesEconomic Logicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171296292101248614noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-12309189286823080102012-03-29T10:11:54.622-07:002012-03-29T10:11:54.622-07:00Rebecca and Sylvain, sorry for missing your papers...Rebecca and Sylvain, sorry for missing your papers. It is great to know similar evidence has been found using different data sets. Will include them in the next revision. Thanks. Shanjun LiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-69707804229611250542012-03-26T05:04:58.310-07:002012-03-26T05:04:58.310-07:00Studying gasoline consumption in Switzerland, we a...Studying gasoline consumption in Switzerland, we also find that a tax increase has a larger impact than a "natural" price increase of a similar magnitude. <br />The complete working paper can be downloaded at <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=1984584" rel="nofollow">http://ssrn.com/abstract=1984584</a>Sylvain Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196709201228993831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-80878353052661484712012-03-22T09:09:42.241-07:002012-03-22T09:09:42.241-07:00I too have found consumers to react more strongly ...I too have found consumers to react more strongly to tax-driven than to crude-oil-driven changes in the gasoline price, and I've tried to explain this difference in the context of rational (that is, forward-looking) habits: consumers have a greater incentive to adapt to price changes they anticipate to be permanent than to price fluctuations driven by the ups and downs of the crude oil price. See e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988312000357.Rebecca Scothttp://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd2567noreply@blogger.com