The Demand For Motor Fuels in Middle European Region and its Impacts on Indirect Tax Revenues

Abstract

The paper contains computationally intensive econometric methods to estimate the elasticity of the demand for motor fuels in six Central European Cuntries (Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary). The estimated elasticities of demand are used in deriavation of the effets of indirect taxation on tax revenues.

Keywords

• Motor Fuel Demand
• Price and Income Elasticity, Tax Policy.