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The Performance of State Tax Portfolios During and after the Great Recession
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Implicit Land Taxes and Their Effect on the Real Economy
In: Darden Business School Working Paper
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Should Congestion Tolls be Set by the Government or by the Private Sector? The Knight–Pigou Debate Revisited
In: Economica, Band 85, Heft 339, S. 428-448
ISSN: 1468-0335
This paper clarifies issues debated by A. C. Pigou and Frank Knight about correcting inefficient use of congestible resources, focusing for concreteness on their original example of road congestion. Instead of government‐imposed Pigouvian access fees, Knight favoured access fees set by private toll‐setters. We consider the case of n≥2 congestible roads and an uncongestible road of arbitrary speed. Knight argued that in the case of a single congestible road, a private toll‐setter would always choose the toll that Pigou recommended, hence the allocation would minimize aggregate commute time without government meddling. We find instead that two or more toll‐setters would never choose Pigouvian tolls except in the special case of a sufficiently fast uncongestible road. Moreover, for uncongestible roads of slower speed, the allocation of motorists under Knight's proposal is almost never efficient. Whenever it is inefficient, motorists are strictly worse off when they pay tolls set by private firms instead of paying government‐imposed tolls, and aggregate toll revenue is also lower. Nevertheless, if the private sector does set tolls, then the full cost to motorists can be limited if the government provides an uncongestible alternative, such as a train, to offer potential competition along the same route.
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Optimal City Size and the Private-Social Wedge
In: 46th Annual AREUEA Conference Paper
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Should Congestion Tolls Be Set by the Government or by the Private Sector?: The Knight–Pigou Debate Revisited
In: Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 17-13
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Better Bunching, Nicer Notching
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