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SEMINAR: Ismir Mulalic (Copenhagen Business School) – “Commuting, Children, and the Gender Wage Gap”

March 12, 2024 – 14.30h – Sala de Recepcions

Gragera Lladó, Albert

5th MEETING ON TRANSPORT ECONOMICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Organised by Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB)

Jornada ‘Ciutats i congestió’

9.30h-11.30h – Auditori del Pati Manning

IEB Report 1/2022: Ciutats i congestió

La congestió, la contaminació ambiental i els accidents són algunes de les derivades sobre les quals cal prendre mesures per tal de reduir els seus efectes negatius. Sobre aquests punts se centra aquest document de l’IEB, en el qual han participat els professors Antonio Russo, de la Loughborough University (Regne Unit); Jos van Ommeren, de la VU Amsterdam (Països Baixos); Maria Börjesson, de la Linköping University (Suècia), i Daniel Albalate i Xavier Fageda, de la Universitat de Barcelona (Espanya).

2021/06: The impact of ‘competition for the market’ regulatory designs on intercity bus prices

Spain regulates its intercity bus market by means of a ‘competition for the market’ mechanism, whose design has been modified several times in the last years. This implies that current services are operated under contracts whose conditions are heterogeneous. We take advantage of such fact to empirically measure the impact that regulatory designs may have on fares paid by the users. The results show very large differences between routes whose contracts were awarded under relatively open conditions compared to regionally regulated routes or very old contracts whose concessions were extended and have not been retendered.