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Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? : seeking a unified view in the internalization debate
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498806
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Product unbundling in the travel industry : the economics of airline bag fees
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013
This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price (the bag fee plus the new fare) could either rise or...
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Slot-based approaches to airport congestion management
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711873
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Airport noise regulation, airline service quality, and social welfare
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Girvin, Raquel (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379804
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Convenient flight connections vs. airport congestion : modeling the 'Rolling Hub'
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lin, Ming Hsin - 2015
This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334230
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Internalization of airport congestion : a network analysis
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2002
The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …, with the tolls being inversely related to a carrier s airport flight share. Internalization of airport congestion is the …
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Significance and determination of fees for municipal finance
Friedrich, Peter (contributor);  … - 2004
The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002522961
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Are user fees really regressive?
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571131
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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods
Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399681
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Income distribution and tax structure : microeconomic test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001
structure in decentralized government in Norway. The choice of revenue instruments studied involves user charges and property … taxes oriented towards housing. While user charges act as head taxes, property taxes have distributive consequences. The … implies a shift in the tax burden from property taxes to user charges. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399685