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Restricción vehicular y regulación ambiental: el programa “Pico y Placa” en Medellín

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  • David Tobón Orozco
  • Carlos Andrés Vasco Correa
  • Blanca Gómez Olivo

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This draft discusses the main instruments to mitigate environmental externalities, considering both the traditional goals of efficiency and equity and restrictions on information and technical and political feasibility. It is analyzed the program "Pico y Placa" in Medellín, a restricting vehicular mobility on the type of command and control, its efficiency and power using the theoretical results and some estimates of elasticities of demand for gasoline and vehicles in Medellin. It is recommended what are the policies most relevant to mobility and control pollution in a city as Medellín.

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  • David Tobón Orozco & Carlos Andrés Vasco Correa & Blanca Gómez Olivo, 2010. "Restricción vehicular y regulación ambiental: el programa “Pico y Placa” en Medellín," Grupo Microeconomía Aplicada 053, Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía.
  • Handle: RePEc:lde:grupom:053
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    Keywords

    Externalities; restricting vehicular mobility; command and control; economic incentives.;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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