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We consider commuting in a congested urban area. While an efficient time-varying toll may eliminate queuing, a toll may not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is...
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This paper presents a model of urban traffic congestion that allows for hypercongestion. Hypercongestion has … fundamental importance for the costs of congestion and the effect of policies such as road pricing, transit provision and traffic …
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British … protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for … almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore, a matter for great regret that this country(Nigeria)has suffered …
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The paper documents how Nigeria’s public financial system stacks up against international standards, the better to see … (PEFA) framework for analysing the Nigeria's systems and processes. The purpose is not to demonstrate that Nigeria falls … heart of the challenge. For, while the design of Nigeria’s PFM system clearly needs modernizing, even to operate it as once …
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This paper investigates the relationship between expected inflation and nominal interest rates in Nigeria and the … rate and nominal effective exchange rate variable in the context of a small open developing economy, such as, Nigeria. The … hypothesis does not hold but there is a strong Fisher effect in the case of Nigeria over the period under study (ii) consistency …
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This paper investigates the relationship between expected inflation and nominal interest rates in Nigeria and the … there is a very strong Fisher effect in the case of Nigeria over the period under study (iii) that causality run strictly … the year. Policy implication, based on the partial Fisher effect in Nigeria, is that the level of actual inflation should …
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Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household …
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This study examined the expenditure pattern of beef and chicken by individual households in Akoko South-West of Ondo State. The study was designed to estimate the monthly expenditure on beef and chicken; evaluate the influence of household income and household size on expenditure as well as...
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