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Peak-Hour Road Congestion Pricing : Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications

Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

preferences, I use a model of departure time choice to design a field experiment with congestion pricing policies and implement it … using precise GPS data. Commuter responses in the experiment reveal moderate schedule inflexibility and a high value of time …

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The "Arms Race" on American Roads : The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules

White, Michelle J. - 2002

Drivers have been running an 'arms race' on American roads by buying increasingly heavy vehicles such as SUVs, vans and light trucks. Families view large vehicles as providing better protection to their own occupants if a crash occurs, but these vehicles pose an increased danger to occupants of...

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An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion

Arnott, Richard - 2005

This paper presents a downtown parking model that integrates traffic congestion and saturated on-street parking. We assume that the stock of cars cruising for parking adds to traffic congestion. Two major results come out from the model, one of which is robust. The robust one is that, whether or...

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Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance

Edlin, Aaron S. - 1999

Americans drive 2,360,000,000,000 miles each year, far outstripping other nations. Every time a driver takes to the …

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Ownership and Use Taxes as Congestion Correcting Instruments

Chia, Ngee-Choon - 2001

In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift towards motor vehicle taxes based on car use. Ownership taxes reduce the number of cars on the road, leaving the price per trip largely unaffected. Use taxes such as fuel taxes and...

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Operational Time and Seasonality in Distributed Lag Estimation

Clark, Peter K. - 1974

The following paper discusses the analysis of some types of economic time series using an altered time scale, or … operational time. It is argued that for some series, observations that are ordinarily thought of as equidistant in time are … actually irregularly spaced in a more natural time scale. Section A discusses point or impulse sampling of related series and …

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International Risk Sharing in the Short Run and in the Long Run

Baxter, Marianne - 2011

International risk-sharing has far-reaching implications both for economic policy and for basic research in economics. When countries do not share risk, individuals in those countries experience fluctuations in their consumption levels that are undesirable and possibly unnecessary. This paper...

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Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing : An Evaluation Using Demographics

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2009

An ongoing debate sets capital budgeting against market timing. The primary difficulty in evaluating these theories is finding distinct exogenous proxies for investment opportunities and mispricing. We use demand shifts induced by demographics to address this problem, and hence, provide a more...

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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence

Bajari, Patrick - 2009

In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading … departments have introduced innovative contracting methods based on scoring auctions that give contractors explicit time …

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Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing

Woodford, Michael - 2008

. The imperfect information is endogenized using a variant of the theory of "rational inattention" proposed by Sims (1998 …

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