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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

. We approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non …-pay auction and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the … anomaly. First, participation in the all-pay auction is substantially lower than in the other mechanisms while the average …

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Inverse Adverse Selection: The Market for Gems

Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

, contractual, and legal solutions. Our results show that auctions (competition among many informed buyers) provide a solution to …

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Auctions under Payoff Uncertainty: The Case with Heterogeneous Bidder-Aversion to Downside Risk

Hu, Audrey; Zou, Liang - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights …

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Competitive Bidding in Auctions with Private and Common Values

Goeree, Jacob K.; Offerman, Theo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

's revenues. Efficiency and revenues are also higher when more bidders enter the auction.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in …

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The Effect of Railway Travel on Urban Spatial Structure

Dröes, Martijn I.; Piet Rietveld† - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We examine the effect of railway travel on urban spatial structure in a polycentric urban land use model. We focus on the role of access to the railway network. We find that if the number of train stations is limited, the degree of urbanization is higher around train stations, but the effect of...

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The WTP for Facilities at the Amsterdam Zuidas

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rodenburg, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper reports the results of a stated preference study investigating the Willingness-to-pay (WTP) of employees at the Amsterdam Zuidas for the presence of non-shopping and shopping facilities. The Amsterdam Zuidas area, surrounding the current train-metro-tram station Amsterdam Zuid...

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Externalities in the Urban Economy

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need for further research, both theoretically and...

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On Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Second-Best Congestion Pricing in a Monocentric City

Tikoudis, Ioannis; Verhoef, Erik T.; Ommeren, Jos N. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper explores the interactions between congestion pricing and a tax-distorted labor market within a monocentric urban equilibrium model. We compute the efficiency gains of various second-best policies, i.e. combinations of toll schemes and revenue recycling programs, with a predetermined...

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Analysis of Environmental Costs of Mobility due to Urban Sprawl - A Modelling Study on Italian Cities

Travisi, Chiara M.; Camagni, Roberto; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

A sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and the environmental or social costs of mobility is rare, and the few studies available provide at best a qualitative discussion of these issues. Some recent tentative studies on the...

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Externalities in Urban Sustainability

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...

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