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Welfare losses of road congestion
Russo, Antonio; Adler, Martin W; Liberini, Federica; … - 2019 - This version: May 2019
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 - even when roads are not hypercongested - is substantial,...
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks. We develop a network model that shows how a district's level of … prosperity is related to its position in the network. The network model's first-order conditions are used to derive an … local economic shocks across Africa. We further show how counterfactual exercises based on these estimates and the …
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Welfare effects of indirect tax policies in West Africa
Babatoundé, Alain; Capéau, Bart; Houssa, Romain - 2023
In West Africa, the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy consists of a uniform tax rate, but several items consumed by rich and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251962
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A model to evaluate vehicle emission incentive policies in Japan
Fullerton, Don; Gan, Li; Hattori, Miwa - 2014
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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How large are road traffic externalities in the city? : the highway tunneling in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Tijm, Joep; Michielsen, Thomas; Maarseveen, Raoul van; … - 2018
Infrastructure projects are increasingly aiming to improve liveability, in particular in urban areas. We analyse a specific case in which an existing highway in an urban area was moved underground in order to improve intercity traffic flows and to reduce traffic externalities. As travel times...
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Speed limit enforcement and road safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019 - This version: December 2019
We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...
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Efficient taxation of fuel and road use
Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2019
This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...
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A tale of two tails : commuting and the fuel price response in driving
Gillingham, Kenneth; Munk-Nielsen, Anders - 2017
Pricing greenhouse gases is widely understood as the most efficient approach for mitigating climate change, yet distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest growing sector for greenhouse gas emissions. Using...
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A simple model of buyer-seller networks in international trade
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Sauré, Philip - 2021
The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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