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Political economy of commuting subsidies
Borck, Rainald (contributor); Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We study the political economy of commuting subsidies in a model of a monocentric city with two income classes … suburbs. Commuting subsidies increase the net income of those with long commutes or high transport costs. They also affect … and the incidence of landownership affects the support for commuting subsidies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002243184
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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment
Cadot, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002424392