Road pricing as a citizen-candidate game

Edoardo Marcucci () and Marco Marini ()

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Abstract: We construct a political economy model to analyze the political acceptability of road pricing policies. We use a citizen-candidate framework with a population composed by three groups differing for their income level. We show that road pricing policies are never applied when there is no redistribution of the resources in favour of other modes of transport or when the congestion of these types of transport is relatively high. The results suggest that the efficiency of the redistribution of resources from road to the alternative types of transport as well as the fraction of the population that uses the road transport are key factors in explaining the adoption of road pricing schemes.

Keywords: Road pricing; Political acceptability; Citizen-candidate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 D11 B21 L90 D61 A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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Published in European Transports 31 (2005): pp. 28-45

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