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On Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Second-Best Congestion Pricing in a Monocentric City
Tikoudis, Ioannis; Verhoef, Erik T.; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2013
This paper explores the interactions between congestion pricing and a tax-distorted labor market within a monocentric urban equilibrium model. We compute the efficiency gains of various second-best policies, i.e. combinations of toll schemes and revenue recycling programs, with a predetermined...
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Does Public Transit reduce Car Travel Externalities?
Adler, Martin W.; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2015
One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural...
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Accident Externality of Driving: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
Tang, Cheng Keat; van Ommeren, Jos - 2020
.4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less than proportional 6.0% and 7.6% decrease in accidents and slight injuries …This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic …, and serious injuries/fatalities rate elasticities with respect to traffic flow are -0.36, -0.19 and -1.65 respectively …
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Regulation of Road Accident Externalities when Insurance Companies have Market Power
Dementyeva, Maria; Koster, Paul R.; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2013
Accident externalities are among the most important external costs of road transport. We study the regulation of these when insurance companies have market power. Using analytical models, we compare a public-welfare maximizing monopoly with a private profit-maximizing monopoly, and markets where...
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Hands on the Wheel, Eyes on the Phone: the Effect of Smart Phone Usage on Road Safety
Brands, Devi; Klingen, Joris; Ostermeijer, Francis - 2020
We provide novel evidence on the effect of smart phone use on road accidents. We exploit variation in phone usage fees … 10% of vehicles involved in accidents can be explained by the use of smart phones, and that these accidents mainly happen …
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Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2013
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making law enforcement activities more salient. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a city in the...
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Tracing the Base : A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing
Schinkel, Maarten Pieter - 2011
Basing-point pricing is known to have been abused by geographically dispersed firms in order to eliminate competition on transportation costs. This paper develops a topographic test for collusive basing-point pricing. The method uses transaction data (prices, quantities) and customer project...
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Dutch Municipalities are Becoming Greener: Some Political and Institutional Explanations
Gradus, Raymond; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2017
This paper analyzes whether Dutch municipalities became greener between 1999 and 2014 by investigating whether they implement different unit-based pricing systems. Based on their incentive, systems are ranged from green ('weight') to less green ('volume'), or not green ('flat rate'). In...
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Assessing Electronic Service Delivery in Municipalities
Budding, Tjerk; Faber, Bram; Gradus, Raymond - 2017
In the Netherlands, electronic service delivery has become an important issue in many municipalities. Using the Internet for service delivery is seen as an important element of e-government. Based on 2014-2016 panel-data of ICT service delivery for all Dutch municipalities, we show that there is...
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Dutch municipal elections 1998-2018: more localism and fragmentation
Gradus, Raymond; Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Budding, Tjerk - 2020
Exploring the outcome of Dutch municipal elections between 1998 and 2018, this paper finds two dominant trends: increasing political fragmentation and localism. When explaining localism, the number of inhabitants, regional diversity and the election year dummies are significant. The last result...
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