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Reducing Coal Subsidies and Trade Barriers: Their Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Abatement

Anderson, Kym; McKibbin, Warwick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

the circumstances under which their reform could not only improve the economy but also lower greenhouse gas emissions … distortions. The effects on economic activity as well as global carbon emissions are examined using the G-Cubed multi … emissions that could result from such reforms are found to be substantial – a ‘no regrets’ outcome or win-win Pareto improvement …

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Does a Tougher Environmental Policy Raise Unemployment? Optimal Taxation, Public Goods and Environmental Policy With Rationing of Labour Supply

Bovenberg, A Lans; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The implications of more environmental concern for the optimal provision of public goods, taxation, environmental policy and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes and subsidies are not available and labour supply is rationed due to a rigid...

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Estimating Urban Road Congestion Charges

Newbery, David M G; Santos, Georgina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Economists wishing to analyse road congestion and road pricing have usually relied on link-based speed-flow relationships. These may provide a poor description of urban congestion, which mainly arises from delays at intersections. Using the simulation model SATURN, we investigate the second-best...

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions

Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...

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Urban Growth and Transportation

Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city’s stock of roads causes about a 2% increase in its population and employment and a small decrease in its share of poor households over...

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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...

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Roads and Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay; Galasso, Alberto; Oettl, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the interplay between transportation infrastructure, knowledge flows, and innovation. Exploiting historical … transportation infrastructure may spur regional growth above and beyond the more commonly discussed agglomeration economies that are …

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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity

Redding, Stephen J.; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the … general equilibrium implications of transportation infrastructure improvements within and between locations for wages … effects of transportation infrastructure improvements on economic development, paying particular attention to the use of …

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The growth of cities

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of answers. Within an integrated framework, this chapter reviews key theories with implications for urban growth. It then...

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