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We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications on the profit of airports, and find that given that the proceeds of the environmental...
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sent out to a representative sample of the Swedish population regarding attitudes to a potential PCA scheme. The … distinctive design of a PCA scheme is likely to give rise to specific factors affecting individuals attitudes, such as the … a number of variables potentially affecting such attitudes. Interestingly, our findings indicate that the most important …
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An optimal first-best road charge should not only be differentiated with respect to factors that affect the direct external environmental and time costs from the road-user himself. Indirect effects, such as the fact that other cars will be more polluting when congestion increases, should also be...
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attitudes of Swedes’ to alcohol taxation and find that these two sides of the coin are important determinants. Many respondents …
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fairness and ideology, respectively. We also analyse the relation between the respective attitudes towards an increase in the …
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Using a larger and more representative sample than previous studies, we assess people’s attitudes toward prostitution … sophisticated statistical methods that can shed further light on attitudes toward different aspects of prostitution while … correlated with more positive attitudes toward buying, but not toward selling, sex. Norwegians are more positive than Swedes …
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data. The tax rate actually faced by the respondents had explanatory power for their attitudes towards the tax rate only … finds no support, but IV-estimations indicate that the actual municipal tax rate may be of importance for the attitudes …
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Using survey data from Norway and Sweden, we assess people’s attitudes towards gender equality. Previous studies argue … that these attitudes are more egalitarian in Sweden than in Norway. Similar to previous research, we find that Swedes are …
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The question of whether laws affect attitudes has inspired scholars across many disciplines, but empirical knowledge is … law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, we assess the short-run effects on attitudes using a difference …-in-differences approach. In the general population, the law did not affect moral attitudes toward prostitution. However, in the Norwegian …
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This paper undertakes a social cost-benefit analysis regarding an increase in the number of electric vehicles in the Swedish transport sector by year 2010. Battery cars are generally found to be socially unprofitable, even though their private life-cycle costs and external costs are lower than...
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