Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact

We examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-in-diff...

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Autores: Bernardo, Valeria, Fageda, Xavier, 1975-, Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/213385
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Impostos
Viatges aeris
Canvi climàtic
Impacte ambiental
Taxation
Air travel
Climatic change
Environmental impact
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spelling Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impactBernardo, ValeriaFageda, Xavier, 1975-Teixidó-Figueras, JordiImpostosViatges aerisCanvi climàticImpacte ambientalTaxationAir travelClimatic changeEnvironmental impactWe examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-in-differences approach considering potential bias of the standard two-way fixed effects and the potential distorting effects of heterogeneities between treated and control routes. The main analysis focuses on low-cost airlines because connecting passengers are typically excluded from the tax. We find that flight ticket taxes have a significant overall effect on low-costs airlines supply and derived emissions: ticket taxes reduce the number of flights per airline-route by 12% on average compared to the counterfactual scenario, resulting in a 14% reduction in carbon emissions. In addition, we estimate a pricing equation using a quantile model to identify the cost pass-through rate over the distribution of the fare variable. The burden of the tax is higher for passengers paying low fares, so taxes have a stronger effect on avoidable flights with less added value and a smaller internalization of the total costs of flying.Elsevier Ltd2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/213385Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2024, vol. 179, núm. 103892https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892cc-by-nc (c) Bernardo et al., 2024http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2133852026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
title Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
spellingShingle Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
Bernardo, Valeria
Impostos
Viatges aeris
Canvi climàtic
Impacte ambiental
Taxation
Air travel
Climatic change
Environmental impact
title_short Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
title_full Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
title_fullStr Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
title_full_unstemmed Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
title_sort Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bernardo, Valeria
Fageda, Xavier, 1975-
Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi
author Bernardo, Valeria
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Fageda, Xavier, 1975-
Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi
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Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Impostos
Viatges aeris
Canvi climàtic
Impacte ambiental
Taxation
Air travel
Climatic change
Environmental impact
topic Impostos
Viatges aeris
Canvi climàtic
Impacte ambiental
Taxation
Air travel
Climatic change
Environmental impact
description We examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-in-differences approach considering potential bias of the standard two-way fixed effects and the potential distorting effects of heterogeneities between treated and control routes. The main analysis focuses on low-cost airlines because connecting passengers are typically excluded from the tax. We find that flight ticket taxes have a significant overall effect on low-costs airlines supply and derived emissions: ticket taxes reduce the number of flights per airline-route by 12% on average compared to the counterfactual scenario, resulting in a 14% reduction in carbon emissions. In addition, we estimate a pricing equation using a quantile model to identify the cost pass-through rate over the distribution of the fare variable. The burden of the tax is higher for passengers paying low fares, so taxes have a stronger effect on avoidable flights with less added value and a smaller internalization of the total costs of flying.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892
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