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Give or take? : rewards vs. charges for a congested bottleneck

Rouwendal, Jan; Verhoef, Erik T.; Knockaert, Jasper - 2010 - This version: September 2, 2010

This paper analyzes the possibilities to relieve congestion using rewards instead of taxes, as well as combinations of rewards and taxes. The model considers a Vickrey-ADL model of bottleneck congestion with endogenous scheduling. With inelastic demand, a fine (time-varying) reward is equivalent...

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Trade reform and labor market dynamics

Botman, Dennis P. J.; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers whosearch for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of theirskills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increasethe wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. Thisresults in a labor market...

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Subsidizing the adoption of energy-saving technologies : analyzing the impact of uncertainty, learning and maturation

Groot, Henri L. F. de; Mulder, Peter; Soest, Daniël … - 2003

greenhouse gases within a politically imposed timeconstraint. Investment subsidies can be an important instrument to stimulate … adoption subsidies on the amount of energy savings, taking into account endogeneityand uncertainty of technological progress … ofinvestment subsidies, whereas the effects on long-run effectiveness are ambiguous. …

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Determining the environmental effects of indirect subsidies

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Moor, … - 2004

damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …

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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010

This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...

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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport

Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998

This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...

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Measuring externalities in program evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - 2006

. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …

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General geographical economics model with congestion

Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

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The adoption of energy efficiency enhancing technologies

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...

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Renewable energy and negative externalities : the effect of wind turbines on house prices

Dröes, Martijn I.; Koster, Hans - 2014

In many countries, wind turbines are constructed as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. In this paper, we measure the external effect of wind turbines on the transaction prices of nearby houses. A unique house price dataset covering the period 1985-2011 is used, including...

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