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Highway Toll and Air Pollution : Evidence from Chinese Cities

Fu, Shihe - 2016

Most highways in urban China are tolled to finance their construction. During the eight-day National Day holiday in 2012, highway tolls were waived nationwide for passenger vehicles. We use this to identify the effects of highway tolls on air pollution. Using daily pollution and weather data for...

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Collusion prevention mechanism in PPP highway projects : optimal government subsidy, toll and penalty

Hou, Yueyi; Wang, Hongwei; Shi, Guanqun - In: Economics of Transportation : the official journal of … 42 (2025), pp. 1-13

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The incidence of congestion tolls on urban highways

Small, Kenneth A. - In: Journal of urban economics 13 (1983) 1, pp. 90-111

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The Promised City: Openness and Immigration in the Making of a WorldMetropolis

Jackson, Kenneth T. - New York <NY> / Columbia University / Department of … - 2005

[...]The focus of my remarks is something else entirely. Mypurpose is threefold: first, to make the case that the study ofhistory is essential to understanding the present and future ofany urban area; second, to suggest that in terms of age, size,density, and demographic patterns, New York has...

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Immigration Trends in the New York Metropolitan Area

Borjas, George J. - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Department of … - 2005

ofimmigrants in the New York metropolitan area. The empiricalanalysis uses the available U.S. census microdata between 1970and 2000 …

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Infrastructure and Social Welfare in Metropolitan America

Haughwout, Andrew - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2001

Public infrastructure is an important part of a wellfunctioningurban economy. Such infrastructure—definedhere as publicly owned and maintained physical capital—hashistorically played a central role in allowing cities to grow bymitigating or reducing problems such as congested...

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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy

MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...

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The Performance of Metropolitan Area Industries

Drennan, Matthew - Cornell University <Ithaca, NY> - 1997

is compared with the nationaleconomy in the context of the taxonomy developed. I thenpresent a model of regional economic … growth based on trade,specialization, and agglomeration economies. That model,which seeks to explain growth of real per … capita income, hasbeen estimated with annual data for the region. The crosssectionversion of that model was developed in …

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Industrial Restructuring in the New York Metropolitan Area

Orr, James - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

[...]This paper analyzes the industrial restructuringprocess in the New York metropolitan area in the first halfof the …-oriented economy. This shift, whilebroadly in line with nationwide trends, has been somewhatmore intense in the metropolitan area …

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Business Services and the Economic Performance of the New York Metropolitan Region

Noyelle, Thierry - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

hasoccurred in the New York metropolitan region since 1989is rather mixed. Although the region has regained onlyhalf of the 625 … growing earnings, the metropolitan areahas done rather well in capturing its share of all transferpayments, dividends …

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