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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2012

dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 …–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More … interestingly, we show that real GDP exhibits a quadratic relationship with CO2 emissions for the region as a whole. However …

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Downtown Curbside Parking Capacity

Arnott, Richard J.; Inci, Eren; Rowse, John - CESifo - 2013

In downtown areas, what proportion of curbside should be allocated to parking? In contrast to most previous work on the economics of parking, this paper focuses on optimal curbside parking capacity in both first-best (where pricing is efficient) and second-best (where pricing is inefficient)...

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Toward a Sustainable Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2011

Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs. Furthermore, to cope up with the reduced export demand from advanced economies arising out of the ongoing financial crisis, the region needs to enhance its connectivity...

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The Stability of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion

Arnott, Richard J.; Inci, Eren - CESifo - 2009

In classical traffic flow theory, there are two velocities associated with a given level of traffic flow. Following Vickrey, economists have termed travel at the higher speed congested travel and at the lower speed hypercongested travel. Since the publication of Walters. classic paper, there has...

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Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty

Békés, Gabor; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Murakozy, Balazs - CESifo - 2014

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a...

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On the Optimal Target Curbside Parking Occupancy Rate

Arnott, Richard J. - CESifo - 2013

For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such...

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TransNIEMO: Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria

Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; II, James E. Moore; Pan, … - CESifo - 2014

We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network. Simulations of major choke-point disruptions redirect...

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012

Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

How have house prices evolved over the long-run? This paper presents annual house prices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we show that real house prices stayed constant from the 19th to the mid-20th century, but rose strongly during the second half of the...

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