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This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
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This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338456
This article discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important now that the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implemented as a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the article deals with the long-run efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005758203
This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303855
This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban … externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need … pursued in future research on urban externalities. These include (1) the explicit consideration of mutual interactions between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334355
In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) 'bottleneck model'. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls', in which the toll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382488
This paper studies road safety and accident externalities when insurance companies have market power, and can influence … technology choice. While a private monopolist internalizes accident externalities up to the point where compensations to users … externalities that their customers impose upon one another. Therefore, non-optimal premiums as well as speed and technology control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477906
This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban … externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need … pursued in future research on urban externalities. These include (1) the explicit consideration of mutual interactions between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074998
In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) 'bottleneck model'. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls,' in which the toll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188626
Accident externalities are among the most important external costs of road transport. We study the regulation of these … internalize some of these externalities, depending on their degree of market power. We derive optimal insurance premiums, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088366