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Highways, Market Access, and Spatial Sorting

Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphael; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017

We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...

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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....

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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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EU Cohesion Policy on the Ground: Analyzing Small-Scale Effects Using Satellite Data

Bachtrögler-Unger, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022

We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...

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Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024

What determines the relative gains from improving different parts of a transportation network? Ports and roads are key … of different ports and trade costs on normal roads and expressways. I then build a general equilibrium model of … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in …

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State Tax Differentials, Cross-Border Commuting, and Commuting Times in Multi-State Metropolitan Areas

Agrawal, David; Hoyt, William H. - 2014

We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical model introduces a border into a model of an urban area and shows that differences in average tax rates distort commute times and interstate commutes. Empirically examining...

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Pigovian Transport Pricing in Practice

Hintermann, Beat; Schoemann, Beaumont; Molloy, Joseph; … - 2025

We implement Pigovian transport pricing in a field experiment in urban agglomerations of Switzerland over the course of 8 weeks. Our pricing considers the external costs from climate damages, health outcomes from pollution, accidents and physical activity, and congestion. It varies across time,...

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The stability of downtown parking and traffic congestion

Arnott, Richard J.; Inci, Eren - 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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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 - 2015

Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes …

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A Model of Rush-Hour Traffic in an Isotropic Downtown Area

Arnott, Richard J.; Kokoza, Anatolii; Naji, Mehdi - 2015

For a quarter century, a top priority in transportation economic theory has been to develop models of rush-hour traffic …

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