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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
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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significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities …
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In this paper, we present a model in which the performing arts are modelled as congestible public goods. In accordance with empirical evidence, the production of seat capacity is assumed to be subject to fixed costs. We estimate the parameters of the model's demand and cost functions using...
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authority in terms of population is obtained where the increase in proprietary risks due to congestion meets the decrease in …
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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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relationship between congestion and the optimal second-best policy, on the one hand, and congestion and the long run growth rate …
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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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