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This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity is financed by budget-balancing user fees,...
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This paper studies the political economy of cordon tolls, the most common form of road pricing in cities. We consider a monocentric city inhabited by renters and resident-landowners. A cordon toll raises the rental price of land within the cordon, and it reduces rents outside this area. Hence,...
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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 …
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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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burden stemming from the tax-induced distortion in the allocation of capital across the corporate and the non … would change compared with a sector-neutral tax system which assures an identical effective tax burden on both sectors. Our …
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In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To this end, we employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which human capital externalities and public education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the...
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revenue from the graduate tax. -- Human capital investment ; educational risk ; wage risk ; learning effort ; graduate …
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oligopoly. We find that in the short run, i.e. when the number of firms in both markets is exogenous, the results concerning tax … overshifting of both taxes is more likely to occur and is more pronounced under upstream oligopoly. As a result of this, a tax … short run while this is not true for the ad valorem tax in the long run. We show that it is normally more efficient to tax …
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economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … recent advances in the theory of Industrial Organization and two-sided markets we show that taxing ads may be … counterproductive. In particular, we identify a number of situations in which ad-adverse consumers are negatively affected by the tax …
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