Regional Externalities

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Regional Externalities: an Introduction

   1. Regional Externalities: an Introduction

      • Wim Heijman

      Pages 1-8

3. Transport

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Modelling Transport in an Interregional General Equilibrium Model with Externalities

      • Morten Marott Larsen, Bjarne Madsen, Chris Jensen-Butler

      Pages 11-45

   3. External Effects in Road Traffic: the Pigou-Knight Model and its Extension to Situations With Endogenous Speed Choice and Heterogeneous Traffic

      • Jan Rouwendal

      Pages 47-69

   4. On Traffic Congestion Models à la Mohring and Harwitz

      • Pierre v. Mouche, Willem Pijnappel, Jan Rouwendal

      Pages 71-89

   5. Local Collectors Versus Major Infrastructural Works

      • Catharinus F. Jaarsma, Wim Heijman

      Pages 91-105

4. Clusters and Product Chains

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Regional Differentiation and Location of Industrial Capacity in the Slovak Republic

      • Jana Gašparíková, Edita Nemcová, Michal Páleník

      Pages 109-130

   3. Automobile Sector in the Slovak Republic: Current Situation and Future Prospects

      • Daneš Brzica

      Pages 131-147

   4. IT Market and E-Commerce in Transition Economy: Network Externalities

      • Vytautas Snieška, Regina Virvilaitė, Vaida Kvainauskaitė, Bronius Neverauskas, Rimantas Gatautis, Aistė Dovalienė

      Pages 149-172

   5. International Outsourcing in the Netherlands

      • Kees Burger, Rein Haagsma

      Pages 173-196

   6. Regional Externalities and Clusters: a Dutch Network Case-Study

      • Roel Rutten, Frans Boekema

      Pages 197-221

   7. Spatial Dimension of Externalities and the Coase Theorem: Implications for Co-existence of Transgenic Crops

      • Volker Beckmann, Justus Wesseler

      Pages 223-242

5. Regional Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Abatement of Commuting’s Negative Externalities by Regional Investment in Houses and Buildings

      • Wim Heijman, Johan van Ophem

      Pages 245-254

   3. Risk as an Externality in Quantitative and Marginal Approaches

      • Václav Beran, Petr Dlask

      Pages 255-286

   4. Macro Policies and Regional Impacts in Norway

      • Steinar Johansen

      Pages 287-306

   5. The Economics of Tree-planting for Carbon Mitigation: A Global Assessment

      • Pablo C. Benítez, Ian McCallum, Michael Obersteiner, Yoshiki Yamagata

      Pages 307-321

   6. Positive Spillovers of Energy Policies on Natural Areas in Poland: an AGE Analysis

      • Adriana M. Ignaciuk

      Pages 323-340

Wim Heijman Wageningen University, The Netherlands, E-mail: wim. heijman@wur. nl Generally speaking, externalities occur when a decision causes uncomp- sated costs or benefits to individuals or groups other than the person(s) making the decision. Examples of negative externalities are numerous in the area of the environment and natural resources. Some negative extern- ities result because a particular type of manufacturing technology is used (e. g. water and air pollution caused by industry). Other negative extern- ities occur because of the transportation system (e. g. air pollution caused by intensive car traffic). Though positive externalities draw less attention than negative externalities, their existence is obvious, for example, b- keepers who provide unpaid pollination services for nearby fruit growers or the positive network effects of a telephone system. The more people who own a telephone, the more useful the device is for each owner (Boardman et al. , 2001). From a social planner’s perspective, the existence of externalities - sults in an economic process outcome that is not socially optimal because marginal costs of the product involved do not equal its price. This implies that, in a well functioning market economy, negative externalities cause too much of a product to be produced, whereas positive externalities cause too little of a product to be produced.

• Information Technology (IT)
• Outsourcing
• cluster
• environment
• externalities
• mobility
• regional economics
• regional policy
• space
• traffic
• transport
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Wim Heijman

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