Understanding the Determinants of Fuel Demand in Costa Rica, 1965-2019: Price, Income, and Registered Vehicles

 

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Autor: Pérez Molina, Eduardo
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Estat:Versión publicada
Data de publicació:2022
Descripció:Fuel demand during the last 50 years in Costa Rica has increased constantly. Do the price of fuels and Gross National Income contribute to explain these trends? This paper explores the existence of causal relations between economic growth, fuel price, and transport demand (represented by fuel consumption and registered vehicles). Vector autoregression (VAR) models were estimated with a time series of data of 1965-2019. Causal relations were found between fuel demand and income, but not with registered vehicles. The effect of price on demand and income were documented, which is important for policy formulation (in particular, possible taxation of fuel demand as a carbon mitigation strategy).gation strategy.
Pais:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/50910
Accés en línia:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ingenieria/article/view/50910
Paraula clau:Fuel demand
fuel price
income
registered vehicles
Granger causality
VAR
Consumo de combustible
precio de combustible
ingreso
flota vehicular
modelo de vectores autorregresivos
causalidad de Granger