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For a quarter century, a top priority in transportation economic theory has been to develop models of rush-hour traffic dynamics that incorporate traffic jams (hypercongestion). The difficulty has been that "proper" models result in mathematical intractabilty, while none of the proposed...
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We study the interactions between fuel efficiency improvements in the transport sector and the oil market, where the … noticeable effect on the transport sector, but also on other sectors through lower oil prices in the regions that introduce the …
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We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
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particularly strongly across generations, such as education and health spending, green energy, and major transport projects. In …
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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 … expansion of cities. If the transport system exhibits constant returns to scale, the subsidies are inefficient, making the urban …
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In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,500 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can …
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show that the disruption in rail transport increases bus ticket sales. Crucially, the effect persists beyond the strike …, indicating that travellers do not return to their originally preferred mode of transport. It is particularly pronounced for …
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This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …
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Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...
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We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...
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