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MEASURING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SEMI- PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above mentioned issue and to propose an alternative...

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Commuting in small towns in rural areas: the case of St Andrews.

Hole, Arne R.; FitzRoy, Felix R. - EconWPA - 2003

Since many rural commuters depend on the private car due to lack of convenient public transport, car reduction policies designed for large cities with ample public transport may be unsuitable for smaller towns. In particular, pricing policies designed to encourage public transport use may be...

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Una Aproximación Microeconométrica a los Determinantes de la Elección del Modo de Transporte. (A Microeconometric Approach to the Determinants of Travel Mode Choice)

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

The transportation system is a fundamental component of the urban economic development, with its generating feature of negative supply externalities standing out (and, as a result, of the satisfied demand for some kind of this supply’s structure) related to congestion and environmental...

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A Dynamic Tiebout Theory of Voluntary versus Involuntary Provision of Public Goods

Glomm, Gerhard; Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 1999

This paper considers a dynamic model of Tiebout-like migration between communities that utilize distinct allocation procedures for public goods. At issue is whether voluntary or compulsory procedures are more likely to prevail over time. We model infinitely lived individuals who make repeated,...

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Regional Inequality in India: A Fresh Look

Singh, Nirvikar; Bhandari, Laveesh; Chen, Aoyu; Khare, Aarti - EconWPA - 2004

There are concerns that regional inequality in India has increased after the economic reforms of 1991. This concern is supported by various statistical analyses. In this paper, we show that the conclusions are sensitive to what measures of attainment are used. In particular, human development...

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Economic Geography and the Fiscal Effects of Regional Integration

Ludema, Rodney D.; Wooton, Ian - EconWPA - 1998

mobile and governments impose redistributive taxes. Regional integration is modeled as either increased labour mobility or … thus higher equilibrium taxes. Moreover, economic integration must increase taxes when the forces of agglomeration are the …

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Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and

Kerr, Suzi; Aitken, Andrew; Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2004

New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land … taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general charges. We explore the efficiency and equity of … efficient or equitable. We find that land taxes are more progressive than capital value taxes. Our research also addresses local …

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"A Tiebout Theory of Public vs Private Provision of Collective Goods"

Lagunoff, Roger; Glomm, Gerhard - EconWPA - 1997

We study whether "coercive" public provision or voluntary private provision of public goods can survive when individuals who "vote with their feet" can choose between communities that differ in the way that public goods are provided. We obtain the following findings: (i) an equilibrium always...

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the EU12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model which assumes perfect factor mobility does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating...

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China's Provincial Growth Dynamics

Aziz, Jahangir; Duenwald, Christoph - EconWPA - 2001

China’s rapid overall growth since 1978 masks significant differences in relative economic performance across its provinces. This paper finds that, while per capita income of poor provinces are catching up with those in the rich, the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into...

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