The paper assesses the economic impact of a toll imposed on heavy-goods vehicles proportional to distance driven. The macroeconomic impact of the toll is estimated by using the disaggregated econometric model MULTIMAC of the Austrian economy. The assumption is that all toll revenues will be...

Derzeit wird in der EU heftig diskutiert, wie die Investitionstätigkeit und damit Wachstum und Beschäftigung am besten angekurbelt werden können. EU-Kommissionspräsident Juncker hat in diesem Zusammenhang eine Investitionsoffensive für die kommenden drei Jahre angekündigt. Der Autor...

Sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and environmental or social costs of mobility are still very rare in Europe and the few studies available provide only a qualitative discussion on this. Recently, Camagni et al. (2002)...