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The Distributional Impacts of Policies for the Control of Transport Externalities.An Applied General Equilibrium Model
Mayeres, Inge - 1999
welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … the equity effects of the policy reforms. The second contribution is related to the way in which the externalities are … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608472
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The Distributional Impacts of Policies for the Control of Transport Externalities.An Applied General Equilibrium Model
Mayeres, Inge - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … the equity effects of the policy reforms. The second contribution is related to the way in which the externalities are … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385363
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The Distributional Impacts of Policies for the Control of Transport Externalities : An Applied General Equilibrium Model
Mayeres, Inge - 1999
welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The … policy reform is welfare improving or not. From the theory of optimal taxation in the presence of externalities, we know that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196434
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Taxes And Transport Externalities
Mayeres, Inge - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2002
The paper reviews the role of taxation in controlling transport externalities. It argues that the design of transport … the transport instruments at the disposal of the policy maker. The relevance of equity considerations for transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808074
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Reforming transport pricing: an economist's perspective on equity, efficiency and acceptability
Mayeres, Inge; Proost, Stef - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2002
This paper applies the traditional definition of equity and efficiency in economics to transport pricing. It is shown … by examining the effects for Belgium of replacing current transport pricing by marginal social cost pricing. The welfare … equilibrium model. We demonstrate how the efficiency, equity and acceptability of the reform depend not only on the change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005698131
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Should Diesel cars in Europe be discouraged?
Mayeres, Inge; Proost, Stef - 2001
cars. The model integrates the effects on tax revenue, environmental externalities, road congestion, accidents and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608674
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Should Diesel Cars in Europe Be Discouraged?
Proost, Stef - 2003
integrates the effects on tax revenue, environmental externalities, road congestion, accidents and income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012740596
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Tax reform for dirty intermediate goods: theory and an application to the taxation of freight transport
Calthrop, Edward; Borger, Bruno De; Proost, Stef - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2003
concreteness, the focus is on tax reform for freight road transport to cope with congestion externalities; results for other types … of externalities can be derived as special cases. The model takes into account that passenger and freight flows jointly … output markets, including the passenger transport market and the labour market. Moreover, it clearly shows that the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005698128
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Hypercongestion.
Small, K.A.; Chu, X. - California Irvine - School of Social Sciences - 1997
The standard economic model for analyzing tarffic congestion, due to A.A. Walters, incorporates a relationship between speed and traffic flow. Empirical measurements indicate a region, known as hypercongestion, in which speed increase with flow. We argue that this relationship is unsuitable as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486837
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Race to the top in traffic calming
Proost, Stef; Westin, Jonas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
We study the competition of two suburbs that are facing transit traffic flows. We show that in the absence of toll measures, the Nash equilibrium leads to a race to the top in traffic calming, except for the measures that do not affect the generalized cost of traffic. The Nash equilibrium is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095054