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The Law, Economics, And Policy Of Urban Congestion, Christian Iaione
The Law, Economics, And Policy Of Urban Congestion, Christian Iaione
Fernando Christian Iaione
This paper argues that the best response to the tragedy of road congestion has to rely on market-based regulatory techniques and public policies aimed at controlling the demand-side of transportation congestion. In particular, among these market-based regulatory techniques, economists seem to favor price-based instruments (e.g. taxes and subsidies) over quantity-based instruments (i.e. cap-and-trade schemes). The main argument of this paper is instead that quantity instruments, such as tradable permits of road usage and/or of real estate development, can better internalize all the externalities that road congestion is capable of producing. This paper advances also the idea that quantity instruments are …
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Fernando Christian Iaione
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Fernando Christian Iaione
Fernando Christian Iaione
Local public entrepreneurship is a concept which encompasses a variety of activities carried out by local governments to foster local economic development. The first part of this paper puts forward local public entrepreneurship as a windfall of the right to local self-government. In the second part two cases are presented - one from EU and one from US - where local public entrepreneurship is playing a major role. However, in the EU the ECJ jurisprudence is discouraging local governments to engage in such activities thereby undermining the right to local self-government. By contrast, the US legal system actively encourages a …
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Christian Iaione
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Christian Iaione
Fernando Christian Iaione
Local public entrepreneurship is a concept which encompasses a variety of activities carried out by local governments to foster local economic development. The first part of this paper puts forward local public entrepreneurship as a windfall of the right to local self-government. In the second part two cases are presented - one from EU and one from US - where local public entrepreneurship is playing a major role. However, in the EU the ECJ jurisprudence is discouraging local governments to engage in such activities thereby undermining the right to local self-government. By contrast, the US legal system actively encourages a …
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Fernando Christian Iaione
Local Public Entrepreneurship And Judicial Intervention In A Euro-American And Global Perspective, Fernando Christian Iaione
Fernando Christian Iaione
Local public entrepreneurship is a concept which encompasses a variety of activities carried out by local governments to foster local economic development. The first part of this paper puts forward local public entrepreneurship as a windfall of the right to local self-government. In the second part two cases are presented - one from EU and one from US - where local public entrepreneurship is playing a major role. However, in the EU the ECJ jurisprudence is discouraging local governments to engage in such activities thereby undermining the right to local self-government. By contrast, the US legal system actively encourages a …