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Reforming the Air Passenger Duty as an Environmental Tax
Truby, Jon M. - 2014
In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067239
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Supply Side Incentives
Frischmann, Brett M. - 2012
This chapter considers the relationship between nondiscrimination rules and supply-side incentives to invest in infrastructure. We encountered the issue throughout chapter 6. This chapter frames and evaluates the oft -made claim that government-imposed commons management will significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103282
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Managing Congestion
Frischmann, Brett M. - 2012
This chapter considers partially (non)rival infrastructure and congestion. Specifically, it explains and analyzes congestions problems and solutions. It begins with the basic economic model of congestion, which assumes homogenous uses, and discusses various approaches to managing congestion. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103289
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Infrastructure : the Social Value of Shared Resources (Introduction)
Frischmann, Brett M. - 2014
Infrastructure resources are at the center of many contentious public policy debates, ranging from what to do about our crumbling roads and bridges, to whether and how to protect of our natural environment, to patent law reform, to electromagnetic spectrum allocation, to providing universal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066669
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The Internet and the Network Neutrality Debate
Frischmann, Brett M. - 2012
This chapter explores how infrastructure theory applies to the Internet and in particular the network neutrality debate. The chapter demonstrates how the infrastructure analysis, with its focus on demand-side issues and the function of commons management, reframes the network neutrality debate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167464
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Desigualdades socioespaciais de acesso a oportunidades nas cidades brasileiras - 2019
Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira; … - 2019
One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education … focused on the challenges of reducing road congestion and commuting times, while paying little attention to issues of urban … concentration of activities in central urban areas combined with the performance/connectivity of transportation networks lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616434
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Desigualdades socioespaciais de acesso a oportunidades nas cidades brasileiras - 2019
Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira; … - 2019
One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education … focused on the challenges of reducing road congestion and commuting times, while paying little attention to issues of urban … concentration of activities in central urban areas combined with the performance/connectivity of transportation networks lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156595
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Roadmap to Gridlock : The Failure of Long-Range Metropolitan Transportation Planning
O'Toole, Randal - 2009
concentrate on quantifiable factors that are directly related to transportation, including safety and congestion relief …-range (20- to 30-year) metropolitan transportation plans and to revise or update those plans every 4 to 5 years. A review of … resources to reduce congestion, maximize mobility, and provide safe transportation facilities. Nearly half the plans reviewed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213400
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435382
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680