Modeling Economic Inefficiency Caused By Public Transit Subsidies

Author : Kofi Obeng
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modeling Economic Inefficiency Caused by Public Transit Subsidies written by Kofi Obeng and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-06-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirical investigation into the distorting effects of subsidies on firm efficiency, this book puts together and applies recent developments in econometric methods to explore efficiency consequences of government subsidy on firm operations. Within the neoclassical framework, the book provides analytical solutions capturing the effect of subsidy on cost, output, input demand, and allocative distortions when the firm receives operating and capital subsidies. By doing so, the book avoids the ad-hoc models that have been used to estimate the effect of subsidy on firm efficiency in the transit industry. The book takes the analytical model and develops empirical models to estimate the effect of subsidy on firm efficiency in transit firms. It applies a variety of techniques—deterministic, stochastic frontier estimation, and Data Envelopment Analysis to capture various aspects of the effect of subsidy. It separates allocative inefficiency into those due to subsidy and those due to internal factors. The book's contribution is the consistency and thoroughness with which the authors deal with the topic and the rigor of the empirical estimation.

Author : Nicolas Estupinan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affordability and Subsidies in Public Urban Transport: What Do We Mean, What Can Be Done? written by Nicolas Estupinan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Subsidy policies on public urban transport have been adopted ubiquitously. In both developed and developing countries, subsidies are implemented to make transport more affordable. Despite their widespread implementation, there are virtually no quantitative assessments of their distributional incidence, making it impossible to determine if these instruments are pro-poor. This paper reviews the arguments used to justify subsidy policies in public urban transport. Using different tools to quantitatively evaluate the incidence and distributive impacts of subsidy policy options, the paper analyzes the findings of a series of research papers that study urban public transport subsidy policies in developed and developing countries. The available evidence indicates that current public urban transport subsidy policies do not make the poorest better off. Supply-side subsidies are, for the most part, neutral or regressive; while demand-side subsidies perform better-although many of them do not improve income distribution. Considering that the policy objective is to improve the welfare of the poorest, it is imperative to move away from supply-side subsidies towards demand-side subsidies and to integrate transport social concerns into wider poverty alleviation efforts, which include the possibility of channeling subsidies through monetary transfer systems or through other transfer instruments (food subsidies, health services and education for the poor). The general conclusion of the paper is that more effort should be devoted to improve the targeting properties of public urban transport subsidies using means-testing procedures to ensure a more pro-poor incidence of subsidies.

Author : Der-Horng Lee
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845420536
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban and Regional Transportation Modeling written by Der-Horng Lee and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This collection in honor of David Boyce contains genuinely interesting and quality papers that reflect the diversity of interests of the honoree. David Boyce has made a number of significant contributions at the interface of transportation and regional science. He has been a pioneer of injecting rigor and consistency into spatial analysis. The papers here both reflect the ethos of this copious body of analysis and take it further in extensions and applications. It will prove to be an enduring source of ideas and insight.' - Kenneth Button, George Mason University, US

Author : Guido Pincione
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862698
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation written by Guido Pincione and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive and sustained critique of theories of deliberative democracy.

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Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Transport Economics and Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 580 pages
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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Total Pages : 1382 pages
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Total Pages : 2312 pages
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Total Pages : 496 pages
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