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The emissions reduction potential for freight transport on a high-speed rail line along the "European Silk Road"
Arsenev, Aleksandr; Angers, Erica; Holzner, Mario - 2023
This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the northern route, from Lyon to Warsaw, of a 'European Silk Road' (ESR). Using a methodology consisting of predictions regarding the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343066
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Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking
Mackenzie, Ian A. - 2009
investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008735783
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Peer effects and incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2014
In a multi-agent setting, individuals often compare own performance with that of their peers. These comparisons influence agents incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show that depending on the interplay of the peer effects, agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430294
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Estimating the external returns to education : evidence from China
Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan; Wang, Liming - 2015
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an...
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2015
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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport
Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998
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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Measuring externalities in program evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2006
. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
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General geographical economics model with congestion
Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005
We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...
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Environmental taxation and development : a scoping study
Spratt, Stephen - 2013
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