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The theory of road pricing developed for single links suggests time andlocation varying charges equal to the marginal … congestion cost at the efficientlevel of traffic. The second-best network counterpart is derived, but would beinfeasible to …
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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 within the city hardly changed, this allows for a clean … identification of the value of traffic externalities. We find that the liveability benefits of such integrated infrastructure are …
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median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax regime, while an individual with preferences above the median …
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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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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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excludable public inputs into a simple endogenous growth model. We derive the equilibrium growth rate and design the optimal tax … the consequences this has in turn for the government’s budget. The latter consists of fee and tax revenues that are used …
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Hidden “junk” fees have the potential to distort competition, creating high costs to consumers. However, regulating them can lead to adverse effects, especially in complex markets with intermediaries where they are most prevalent. To explore the equilibrium adjustments of regulating hidden...
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We analyse a card payment system to assess the economic impact of the interchange fee. This fee is paid by the bank of the merchant, the acquirer, to the bank of the consumer, the issuer. We build up a mode in order to explore whether the interchange fee can enhance the participation to the...
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services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in …
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