Scrapping subsidies , economic assessment of state aid , financial crisis , automobile market
Abstract:
We study the effects of the car scrapping subsidies in Europe during the financial
crisis. We make use of a rich data set of all car models sold in nine European countries,
observed at a monthly level during 2005-2011.We employ a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the fact that different countries adopted their programs at different points in time. We find that the scrapping schemes played a strong role in stabilizing total car sales in 2009: they prevented a total car sales reduction of 17.4% in countries with schemes targeted to low emission vehicles, and they prevented a 14.8% sales reduction in countries with non-targeted schemes. In contrast, the scrapping schemes only had small environmental benefits: without the schemes, average fuel consumption of new purchased cars would have been only 1.3% higher in countries with targeted
schemes and 0.5% higher in countries with non-targeted schemes. We do not find evidence of crowding out due to substitution from non-eligible to eligible cars in countries
with targeted schemes. Finally, we identify some competitive and trade effects from
the schemes: domestic car producers benefited at the expense of foreign competitors
in the countries where the schemes were not targeted.
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