Second-best road pricing through highway franchising

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-361

  Verhoef, Erik T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Highway franchising; Second best pricing; Traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547954557     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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