Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy

The authors would like to thank for helpful comments Jeff Alson, Raj Chetty, Don Fullerton, David Good, Mark Jacobsen, Tom Kenney, Chris Knittel, Matt Kotchen, Robert Mull and seminar participants at Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Dartmouth, Hebrew University, Michigan, MIT, the National Tax Association, NBER, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Yale. David Cashin, Patrick Giamario, Matthew Johnson, Katherine Li and Matej Mavricek provided excellent research assistance. Financial support from the California Energy Commission is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Financial support from the California Energy Commission is gratefully acknowledged.