CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Christopoulos, John |
|---|---|
| Title | Diesel Fuel Consumption in Europe |
| Summary | In this study a panel data set consisting of 14 European countries during the period of 1990-2004 is used to conduct an analysis of the factors affecting diesel consumption. This study controls for the fact that the users that are likely to purchase a diesel powered car are the most intensive users. This peculiarity of the diesel fuel market is used in order to produce more realistic elasticity estimates. Other factors such as fuel efficiency and reduced utilization due to more cars per people are used to control for the factors that affect short-run diesel fuel consumption. The results show that after these factors are controlled for the range in which the elasticities fall becomes much smaller and that the elasticities become similar to those found in gasoline demand studies. |
| Supervisor | Rátfai, Attila |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/christopoulos_john.pdf |
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