Personalia

Name: Inge Mayeres

Address 1: Belgian Federal Planning Bureau, Kunstlaan 47-49, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Tel.: + 32 2 507 73 25

Fax:+ 32 2 507 73 73

E-mail: IM@PLAN.BE

Address 2: Center for Economic Studies, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Office: HOG 02.117

Tel.: + 32 16 32 66 35

Fax:+ 32 16 32 67 96 or + 32 16 32 69 10

Current Position

Expert - Belgian Federal Planning Bureau

Buitengewoon gastdocent - K.U.Leuven

Research Interests

general: transport economics, environmental economics, public economics

specific topics:

general equilibrium analysis of transport policies

external costs of transport

transport modelling

Education

Ph.D. in Economics (K.U.Leuven; 1999)

Master of Arts in Economics (K.U.Leuven; 1990)

Licentiate in Applied Economics (University of Antwerp, UFSIA; 1989)

Teaching

I teach Introductory Economics at the K.U.Leuven. For a description of this course, click the course code D0431A .

Publications

Journal articles	Taxes and Transport Externalities, Public Finance and Management, 2003, Vol. 3, no. 2.   Should Diesel Cars in Europe be Discouraged? Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2001, Vol. 31, 453-470. (with S. Proost).   Marginal Tax Reform, Externalities and Income Distribution, Journal of Public Economics, 2001, Vol. 79, 343-363. (with S. Proost).   Een economische analyse van het mobiliteitsvraagstuk, Onze Alma Mater, 2000, Vol. 54, 281-292.   The Efficiency Effects of Transport Policies in the Presence of Externalities and Distortionary Taxes, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 2000, Vol. 32, 233-260.   Een optimaal prijsbeleid voor het stedelijk openbaar vervoer, Tijdschrift Vervoerswetenschap, 1997, Vol. 33, 31-41 (with B. De Borger, S. Proost and S. Wouters).   Optimal Tax and Public Investment Rules for Congestion Type of Externalities, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1997, Vol. 99, 261-279 (with S. Proost).   Een optimaal prijsbeleid voor het stedelijk openbaar vervoer, Tijdschrift Vervoerswetenschap, Vol. 33, 31-41 (with B. De Borger, S. Proost and S. Wouters).   Optimal Pricing of Urban Passenger Transport: A Simulation Exercise for Belgium, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 1996, 31-54 (with B. De Borger, S. Proost and S. Wouters).   The Marginal External Costs of Urban Transport, Transportation Research D, 1996, Vol. 1, 111-130 (with S. Ochelen and S. Proost).   The Marginal External Costs of Trucks - An Empirical Exercise for Belgium, Tijdschrift Vervoerswetenschap, 1994, Vol. 30, 121-138.   The Geneva Hydrocarbon Protocol: Economic Insights from a Belgian Perspective, Environment and Resource Economics, 1993, Vol. 3, 107-127 (with D. Miltz and S. Proost).   The Marginal External Costs of Car Use - with an Application to Belgium, Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, 1993, Vol. 38, 225-258.
Contributions to books	Achieving Equity Through Urban Transport Pricing?, in: A. De Palma and E. Quinet (eds.), La tarification des transports. Pourquoi? Pour qui? Les défis d'aujourd'hui et de demain, Economica, forthcoming (with S. Proost).   The Impacts of Marginal Social Cost Pricing, in: C. Nash and B. Matthews (eds.), Measuring the Marginal Social Cost of Transport, Elsevier Science, forthcoming (with S. Proost and K. Van Dender).   Transportation and Equity, in: K. Donaghy, G. Rudinger and S. Poppelreuter (eds.), Transport and Society, Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming (with C. Bae).   Reforming Transport Pricing: An Economic Perspective on Equity, Efficiency and Acceptability, Chapter 6 in: J. Schade and B. Schlag (eds.), Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies, Elsevier Science, 2004 (with S. Proost).   The External Costs of Transport, in: B. De Borger and S. Proost (eds.), Reforming Transport Pricing in the European Union, Edward Elgar, 2001, 135-169 (with K. Van Dender).   Marginale externe kosten van transport: beschrijving, waardering en meting, in: S. Proost and B. De Borger (eds.), Mobiliteit: De Juiste Prijs, 1997, Garant, 43-80 (with S. Proost and K. Van Dender).   An Economic Approach to the European Ozone Problem, in: Van Ierland et al. (eds.), The Economics of Atmospheric Pollution, 1996, Springer Verlag (with S. Proost).   Congested Roads and General Equilibrium Pigouvian Tax Solutions, in: J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, P. Nijkamp and P. Rietveld (eds.) Recent Advances in Spatial Equilibrium Modelling: Methodology and Applications. A Volume in Honour of Professor T. Takayama, 1996, Springer Verlag, 221-242 (with S. Proost).
Ph.D. dissertation	The Control of Transport Externalities. A General Equilibrium Analysis, Ph.D. dissertation no. 126, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, K.U.Leuven.
Conference proceedings	Social Cost Pricing of Urban Passenger Transport, in: D. Hensher, J. King and T. Oum (eds.), World Transport Research - Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research, 1996, Pergamon, 385-394 (with B. De Borger, S. Proost and S. Wouters).   Optimal Tax Rules for Congestion Type of Externalities, in: D. Hensher, J. King and T. Oum (eds.), World Transport Research - Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research, 1996, Pergamon, 301-310 (with S. Proost).
Recent research papers	Mayeres, I., S. Proost, G. Emberger, S. Grant-Muller, C. Kelly and A.D. May Synergies and Conflicts of Transport Packages, SPECTRUM, Deliverable 4, Funded by the European Commission, 5th Framework Transport RTD, ITS, University of Leeds, 2003. SPECTRUM Deliverable 4   Mayeres, I. and D. Van Regemorter Modelling the Health-Related Benefits of Environmental Policies and Their Feedback Effects, A CGE Analysis for the EU Countries with GEM-E3. ETE working paper 2003-10   Mayeres, I., S. Proost, K. Van Dender, M. Wickart, S. Suter, R. Van Nieuwkoop Testing Alternative Integration Frameworks - What are the Effects of Alternative Pricing Policies?, UNITE, Deliverable 13, Funded by the European Commission, 5th Framework Transport RTD, ITS, University of Leeds, 2002. UNITE Deliverable 13   Mayeres, I. and S. Proost Testing Alternative Integration Frameworks - Annex 1: The CGE Model for Belgium, UNITE, Deliverable 13, Annex 1 Funded by the European Commission, 5th Framework Transport RTD, ITS, University of Leeds, 2002. UNITE Deliverable 13 Annex 1   Mayeres, I. and S. Proost Can we Use Transport Accounts for Pricing Policy and Distributional Analysis? ETE Working Paper 2001-23 (270 KB)   Equity and Transport Policy Reform ETE Working Paper 2001-14 (231 KB)   Mayeres, I., S. Proost, E. Quinet, D. Schwartz and C. Sessa Alternative Frameworks for the Integration of Marginal Costs and Transport Accounts, UNITE Deliverable 4, Funded by the European Commission, 5th Framework Transport RTD, ITS, University of Leeds, 2001. UNITE Deliverable 4   Proost, S., C. Vinckier, I. Mayeres en B. Nemery Ozon - eerst denken, dan doen, Leuvense Economische Standpunten, 1995/80.