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Agents involved in the formation of a social or economic network typically face uncertainty about the benefits of creating a link. However, the interplay of such uncertainty and risk attitudes has been neglected in the network formation literature. We propose a dynamic network formation model...
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Agents involved in the formation of a social or economic network typically face uncertainty about the benefits of creating a link. However, the interplay of such uncertainty and risk attitudes has been neglected in the network formation literature. We propose a dynamic network formation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386449
-modal model with road and metro commuters, with bottleneck congestion on the road and dynamic crowding congestion in the metro …
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paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using … costs. Our paper contributes to an explanation why countries invest in roadworks even when the fundamental law of congestion …
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unequal distribution of accessibility across space and between different income groups and show that the impact of congestion …
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Congestion is a widespread phenomenon in two-sided markets, but evidence on its costs and benefits is limited. Using … data from an online dating platform, we document a large excess demand, or congestion, for some women. By exploiting … exogenous variation in the number of men and women using the platform, we show that congestion slows down matching time for men …
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In this paper we explore the possible impact of urban congestion on agglomeration economies for a cross-section set of … size and congestion. We use population in each city in the 19th and early 20th century as instruments for current city size … previous research in the region. When congestion is included in the estimation, we find that agglomeration economies are …
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to agglomeration economies and a higher cost of the publicly provided good due to congestion. It is shown that …
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with congestion. It is shown that the optimal amount of governmental input diminishes with uncertainty and that the optimal … deterministic congestion models, but also on the degree of risk aversion. …
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We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...
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