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transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States …. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone and PM2.5 concentrations in New England and New York and increases them … quantify the health impacts of changes in environmental pollution induced by a reduction in congestion and find overall health …
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We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that … accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road’s throughput). We show that the external cost â … hypercongested for more than one hour per day. Hypercongestion accounts for about 40 percent of congestion-related welfare losses …
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related to the introduction of congestion policies, focusing on tradeable driving permits and congestion tolls. We have the … congestion policies welfare-reducing. Second, drivers will oppose the policies even when they receive all permits for free, or … political majority to support both congestion policies. Third, in an infinite horizon setting, tradable permits are superior to …
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-level productivity and scale effects. I show here that the incorporation of theory-based endogenous markups into AGE models is not …
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other forms of congestion into account. …
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and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the role of congestion in determining this optimal financing structure and …, depending upon the degree of congestion. We extend the model to allow for monopoly pricing of the user fee by the government …
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We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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growth also goes hand in hand with formation of slums and congestion. We thus argue that there is a role for public policies. …
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Entrepôts are hubs that facilitate trade between various origins and destinations. We study the role these hubs, and the networks they form, play in international trade. Using novel data, we trace the paths of containerized goods entering the United States. We show that the majority of trade is...
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This paper explores (dis-)economies of scale in property value assessment via cooperative agreements among small tax assessing jurisdictions without consolidation. New York State incentivizes small neighboring towns to unify their assessment function while maintaining respective tax authority;...
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