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Train Commuters' Scheduling Preferences: Evidence from a Large-Scale Peak Avoidance Experiment

Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Verhoef, Erik - 2015

collected during large-scale peak avoidance experiment conducted in the Netherlands, in which participants could earn monetary … rewards for traveling outside peak hours. The experiment included ca. 1000 participants and lasted for about 6 months. Holders … of an annual train pass were invited to join the experiment, and a customized smartphone app was used to measure the …

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The Power of a Bad Example -- A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal

Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2012

results of a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential area, the frequency of cleaning was … locations before, during, and after the experiment, we find strong evidence that litter begets litter. However, we also find …

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Transport Investment Appraisal and the Environment

Nijkamp, Peter; Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik - 2002

This review considers the role of environmental effects in transport investment appraisal, mainly from the perspective of cost-benefit analysis, the most widely adopted appraisal technique. Although the basic principles of CBA are straightforward, several complications are identified that may...

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public …

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Why do Policy Makers stick to Inefficient Decisions?

Dur, Robert A.J. - 1999

This paper offers an explanation for why policy makers stick to inefficient policy decisions. I argue that repealing a policy is a bad signal to voters about the policy maker's competence if voters do not have complete knowledge about the effects of implemented policies. I derive the optimal...

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The Effect of Fiscal Rules on Public Investment if Budget Deficits are Politically Motivated

Dur, Robert A.J.; Peletier, Ben D.; Swank, Otto H. - 1997

Uncertainty about the future preferences of the government may induce policy makers to run excessive budget deficits. As a solution to this problem, economists have proposed to impose a binding debt rule. In this paper we argue that a binding debt rule does not eliminate the distortions due to...

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The Credibility Problem in Unemployment Insurance Policy

Dur, Robert A.J. - 1999

the famous Kydland&Prescott - Barro&Gordon inflationary bias result. This paper shows that a similar credibility problem …

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Time-Varying Tolls in a Dynamic Model of Road Traffic Congestion with Elastic Demand

Verhoef, Erik - 1997

In this paper, a dynamic model of road traffic congestion is presented, with an elastic overall demand for morning peak road usage, and with the congestion technology used being 'flow congestion'. It is demonstrated that in such a case, the optimal time-varying toll should include a 'flat',...

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Congestion caused by Speed Differences

Verhoef, Erik; Rouwendal, Jan; Rietveld, Piet - 1997

In this paper, we investigate congestion caused by differences in desired or possible speeds. Especially outside peak hours, speed differences are probably one of the most important reasons for congestion. Although the model setting, with one lane and no overtaking, may seem simple at first...

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Time, Speeds, Flows and Densities in Static Models of Road Traffic Congestion and Congestion Pricing

Verhoef, Erik - 1997

This paper studies some of the properties and fundamentals of static models of road traffic congestion that have triggered much debate in the literature. The first part of the paper focuses in particular on the difficulties arising with the backward-bending cost curve in the context of...

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