17 nov

ZOOM, Uppsala

Seminarium: Jonathan Stråle

Jonathan is a PhD student at the Department of Economics (Environmental Economics Group) at SLU. He is involved in the project 'Economic Instruments and Consumption', funded by the Swedish EPA (Naturvårdsverket). Within this project, he is performing microeconometric studies of patterns of demand for individual goods with focus on energy-intensive goods such as air-travel. Jonathan has published his first paper in Tourism Economics.

Abstract

 

This paper evaluates the effects of the Swedish aviation tax on the price and demand for international air travel using the synthetic control group method. In addition, it estimates the price elasticity of international air travel from Sweden using web-scraped price data and an instrumental variable approach to account for the simultaneity bias in the price and passenger demand relationship. The effects of the tax are bigger than expected, with the effects on passengers increasing over time after the introduction and the ef­fects on the prices starting high and then decreasing. The estimat­ed price elasticity is -0.76, which together with the price effects of the tax accounts for the reduction in international travel the first three quarters after the introduction. The increase in passenger effects while the price effects diminishes indicates that there in addition to the price effect of the tax is a symbol effect that are af­fecting the behavior of the Swedish travelers. A potential “Greta Thunberg"-effect is also considered, and no direct evidence for such an effect are found. In contrast to other recent papers, no “leakage effect" of the tax, i.e. that passengers avoid the tax by go­ing to neighboring countries, is found.

Fakta

Tid: 2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:00
Ort: Uppsala
Lokal: ZOOM
Arrangör: Institutionen för ekononomi
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Zoomlänk:  https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/61891716365

Lösenord: seminar


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