This paper discusses the implications of autonomous-connected-electric-shared vehicles
(ACES) for public finance, which have so far been widely ignored in the literature. In OECD …

We exploit GPS-coded vehicle movement data that records millions of road users every
second of their way over a full year in Berlin to suggest a novel approach to estimate the …

Traditional retail involves traffic both from warehouses to stores and from consumers to
stores. Ecommerce cuts intermediate traffic by delivering goods directly from the …

There is a widely-held view that as demand for travel goes up, this decreases not only speed
but also the capacity of the road system, a phenomenon known as hypercongestion. We …

Traditional retail involves traffic both from warehouses to stores and from consumers to
stores. E-commerce cuts intermediate traffic by delivering goods directly from the …

This thesis consists of four independent chapters on urban and development economics.
The first chapter estimates the causal effect of access to new subway stations on …