Bonus-Malus system impact on the demand for eco-friendly vehicles
2022 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Sustainable development
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energyAlternative title
Effekten av bonus-malus system på efterfrågan på miljövänliga fordon (Swedish)
Abstract [en]
Global warming issues are a widespread problem around the world and the emissions of greenhouse gases is one of the main contributors. The transport sector emits a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions; thus, this contributes to global warming. To tackle this challenge the Swedish state introduced in July 2018 a system called bonus-malus system which aims to increase the proportion of eco-friendly cars and in the long run reducing greenhouse gases emissions from the transport sector. This paper examines the tax system within the Bonus-Malus system. Primarily investigating if Malus, tax system, impacted the demand for electric vehicles since it introduced. The study conducted based on a short panel data from Sweden´s 21 counties for the period 2016-2020 and the analysis method applied is a regression analysis. The results of this thesis confirm a strong positive relationship between the share of newly registered battery electric vehicles (BEV) and the Malus, but much weaker influence of the other studied variables. Suggesting that tax system induce on emission seem to be efficient at boost the demand for BEV
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 31
Keywords [en]
Bonus-malus-system, malus, taxes, eco-friendly vehicles, electric car, BEV, Average income, carbon dioxide emissions, gasoline prices.
National Category
Economics Climate Research
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-113986OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-113986DiVA, id: diva2:1668904
Subject / course
Economics
Educational program
Economics, master programme, 120 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-06-142022-06-132022-06-14Bibliographically approved