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Fuel Prices, Sales Taxes and Passenger Car Market Shares in New Zealand, 1963–1978 *
Author(s) -
FALVEY RODNEY E.,
ROGERS ALAN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1986.tb00881.x
Subject(s) - market share , economics , market share analysis , monetary economics , business , order (exchange) , finance , market microstructure
This paper estimates a set of market share equations for new passenger cars in New Zealand over the period 1963 to 1978. These equations are then used to determine the effects on market shares of the fuel price increases and tax rate changes that occurred in the 1970s. The results indicate that the fuel price increases had a major impact on market shares, but that the tax changes probably did not.