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capital good, subject to congestion. We show how in the presence of congestion the effect of government investment on private … the degree of congestion. Both lump-sum and distortionary tax financing are considered, with this tradeoff being tightened …
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agglomeration and congestion. The main finding is that the negative effect of congestion on productivity is highly likely to …
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agglomeration and congestion. The main finding is that the negative effect of congestion on productivity is highly likely to …
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congestion process in some countries. For checking it, we utilize a Barro and Sala i Martin endogenous growth model which … the speed of convergence but generates congestion in some countries. These spatial variables also affect the aggregate … supply, and hence the price and output levels. Key words: transportation, regional growth, convergence, congestion. JEL Class …
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by use of a new economic geography model with multiple industries. The urban costs and congestion are explicitly included … in the model. We obtain the following results. First, if congestion does not exist, at most one industry disperses when … the dispersing industry agglomerate in one region. Second, in the case of strong congestion, plural industries might …
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The goal of this paper is the estimation of the effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. In order to … causal effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. The estimation draws on panel data methods that have … congestion and road accidents would yield multiplicative benefits for policies that aim at reducing either of them. In addition …
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Net neutrality is defined as the concept in which Internet service providers are obliged to treat all data streams equally, independent of which application, service, device, sender or receiver is involved. They are as such forbidden to block, throttle or alter data traffic over their networks....
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a big city and a set of small villages, and where congestion effects and agglomeration forces are at work at the level …
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This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity is financed by budget-balancing user fees,...
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We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...
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