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Estimating crowding costs in public transport

Haywood, Luke; Koning, Martin - 2013

Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in automobile traffic increases costs by raising trip durations, the same is less obvious in public transport (PT), especially rail-based. This has lead many economic analyses to conclude...

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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. …

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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...

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Mitigating environmental and public-safety risks of United States crude-by-rail transport

Oke, Olufolajimi; Huppman, Daniel; Marshall, Max; … - 2016

We present a medium-term market equilibrium model of the North American crude oil sector via which we develop a scenario analysis to investigate strategies to mitigate the environmental and public-safety risks from crude-by-rail transportation across the United States. The model captures crude...

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Economic effects of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality : a study of German counties

Gaus, Dennis; Link, Heike - 2020

In this paper, we analyze the impact of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality on regional economic production. We exploit an extensive panel dataset on the German county level (N=401), expressing the capital value and condition of highways between 2007 and 2016, to estimate a...

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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software

Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002

Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...

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Fiscal competition, capital-skill complementarity, and the composition of public spending

Borck, Rainald (contributor) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Social status concerns and the political economy of publicly provided private goods

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias - 2019

We analyze the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social status. Status concerns motivate richer individuals to vote for the public provision of goods they themselves buy in markets: a higher provision level attracts more individuals to...

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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

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Shaking Dutch grounds won't shatter the European gas market

Holz, Franziska; Brauers, Hanna; Richter, Philipp M.; … - 2015

The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent … analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of … Russian export disruption (Richter & Holz, 2015). However, the Netherlands have suffered from regular earthquakes in recent …

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