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In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for asingle fast transport connection that … faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto …
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
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series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
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Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
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This paper develops a continuous-time -continuous-place economic model of road trafficcongestion with a bottleneck, based on car-following theory. The model integrates twoarchetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature: 'static flow congestion',originating in the works of...
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(3) that different airports in an international network will typically not be regulated by the same authority. We present … an analytical treatment for a simple two-node network and some numerical results to illustrate our findings. Some main …
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This paper considers the use of ‘long-run cost functions’ for congested networks in solving second-best network … network is subject to tolling and/or capacity choice, and cases with and without a self-financing constraint imposed. We will … for most of the cases of interest, which can be used in an applied network model as a substitute for the conventional …
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sets fares in a congestible network. Using three models, with different spatial structures, we describe the operator … three models allow us to consider three different forms of price differentiation and discrimination in networks: by user …-differentiation. The network models show that results obtained for a single-link network can be generalized to a situation where operators …
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network. Interestingly, unconnected equilibria are asymmetric and central players may emerge. Second, I show that non …
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We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous … network; but this difference is mitigated by the productdifferentiation made possible by heterogeneous users. Ignoring …
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