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Biography of Herbert Mohring - Economist
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Herbert Mohring is a transportation economist who taught at the University of Minnesota for many years. He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the Mohring effect of increasing returns in public transportation. Mohring and Harwitz (1962) also showed that the revenues from the first-best road pricing|congestion tax exactly cover the construction costs of highways when highways possess constant returns to scale. == External links == * http://www.econ.umn.edu/faculty/mohring/ University home page == Important Works == * Mohring, Herbert, Optimization and Scale Economies in Urban Bus Transportation, American Economic Review 62, no. 4 (September 1972): 591-604. * Mohring, Herbert, The Peak Load Problem with Increasing Returns and Pricing Constraints, American Economic Review 60, no. 4 (September 1970): 693-705. * Mohring, H. and Harwitz, M., Highway Benefits: An Analytical Framework, Ch 2, pp 57-90. (1962)
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