Thesis advisor: Frank Gollop / Can an emissions tax reduce the carbon footprint of U.S. domestic air travel without hurting the vitality of the industry? This empirical analysis models the U.S. domestic airline industry using a structural equations system and simulates the effects of a hypothetical carbon emissions tax on the market for U.S. air travel. The price elasticity of demand for air travel in the long-haul U.S. domestic passenger market substantiates that a low level environmental policy would not cause unmanageable harm to the airlines or consumers. This thesis is a practical, quantitative analysis of the feasibility of an environmental policy for U.S. aviation. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics Honors Program. / Discipline: Economics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_102500 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Iannone, Kathleen |
| Publisher | Boston College |
| Source Sets | Boston College |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, thesis |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. |
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