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Employer-Paid Parking, Mode Choice, and Suburbanization

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2017

switching to employer-paid parking, with the burden of parking costs shifting from road users to employers, thus reducing the …

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Highways, Market Access, and Spatial Sorting

Fretz, Stephan - 2018

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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Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl

Brueckner, Jan K.; Largey, Ann Geraldine - 2021

Various authors, most notably Putnam (2000), have argued that low-density living reduces social capital and thus social interaction, and this argument has been used to buttress criticisms of urban sprawl. If low densities in fact reduce social interaction, then an externality arises, validating...

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Transport Subsidies, System Choice, and Urban Sprawl

Brueckner, Jan K. - CESifo - 2003

This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether subsidies are a source of undesirable urban sprawl. While the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher general tax burden (which reduces the demand for space), the...

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Sprawl and Blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - CESifo - 2009

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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Flexible Contracts

Gottardi, Piero - 2012

This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of … play then an important role in determining the costs of delegation. The main focus of the paper lies indeed in the analysis … of these costs and the consequences for whether or not delegation is optimal.We determine and characterize the properties …

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Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal Effects Under Imperfect Climate Policy

Hoel, Michael - 2015

We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. With imperfect climate policies, cost reductions related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions...

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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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Cost Sharing in Collective Contests

Nitzan, Shmuel - 2014

This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity …

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The Cost of Well-Being

Pettini, Anna - 2015

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...

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