Rust in Motion: The Political Environmental Trap of Vehicle Tax Exemptions -- by Gabriel Facundes Monteiro, Edson R. Severnini

We thank Andre Cardoso, Ron Chan, Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Noah Miller, Paula Pereda, Lutz Sager, and Xiaochen Sun for insightful suggestions, and seminar participants at Boston College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of São Paulo, and conference participants at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference, the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), the World Bank’s Annual Conference on Transport Economics, and the Empirical Methods in Energy Economics (EMEE) Workshop for invaluable comments. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Boston College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Nova SBE. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.