This paper is organized as follows. In order to explain the basic idea of 4th best pricing more fully the following Section 2 will sketch and discuss the above mentioned Laffont model, where it is shown that under certain conditions a uniform tariff may be preferable to an optional tariff...

The last two decades have seen a substantial change in the basic philosophy underlying European transportation policy. Due to the Commissions̕ efforts and due to supporting jurisdiction by the European Court of Justice the dominant approach to transportation policy has become far more market...

In the European Union, the infrastructure charging regimes that can be observed are often far from internalising external costs and are rarely based on efficiency principles. In this situation differentiation of existing charges appears to be a sensible intermediate step. In this paper we study...

Dieser Beiträg beschäftigt sich mit optimalen Preisen für Verkehrsinfrastruktureinrichtungen. Angefangen von First-Best Preisen werden weitere Möglichkeiten der Preisbildung dargestellt und deren Eignung für Verkehrsinfrastuktureinrichtungen diskutiert. Bereits aus normativer Sicht wird...

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der politischen Dimension der Infrastrukturbenutzungsgebühren. Auf Basis positiver Theorien der Regulierung werden Hypothesen hinsichtlich des Einflusses von Interessengruppen auf die Tarifstruktur aufgestellt. Einen besonderen Stellenwert bekommt dabei das...

This paper discusses some transport economic dimensions of Lucians "Dialogues of the Dead". Using the service "soul transportation to Hades" as an example, we discuss the transport economic notions revealed in these dialogues, and we draw the parallels to modern economic and political debates....

It is often contended that there is a sharp conflict between the economist's and the ecologist's approach to the question of sustainability. This paper takes the opposite view. The paper attempts to show that both views can be formulated in a common analytical framework and that carried to its...