Economics of Energy Use in Transportation.

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An NBER conference on Economics of Energy Use in Transportation took place May 2-3 in Washington, DC. Kate S. Whitefoot of Carnegie Mellon University and Research Associates Meghan R. Busse of Northwestern University and Christopher R. Knittel of MIT organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER, and David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis, "Estimating Demand for Electric Vehicles in Low- and Middle-income Households"

* Steven T. Berry, Kenneth Gillingham, and James A. Levinsohn, Yale University and NBER, "Technological Innovation and Per-Mile Automobile Insurance: Effects on Patterns of Vehicle Usage"

* Samuel Stolper, University of Michigan, "Local Pass-Through and the Regressivity of Taxes: Evidence from Automotive Fuel Markets"

* James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER, and Jonathan E. Hughes, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Energy Consumption, Emissions and Modal Substitution in U.S. Freight Transportation"

* Jeremy J. Michalek, Ines Azevedo, Constantine Samaras, and Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon...

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