Pigouvian Congestion Tolls and the Welfare Gain: Estimates for California Freeways
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Keywords
Pigouvian tax; congestion externality; California freeway; quasi experiment; instrumental variable; big data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q59 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2024-06-17 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2024-06-17 (Public Economics)
- NEP-TRE-2024-06-17 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2024-06-17 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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