Transforming Payment Choices By Doubling Fees on the Illinois Tollway

Amromin, Gene; Jankowski, Carrie; Porter, Richard D.

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Transforming Payment Choices By Doubling Fees on the Illinois Tollway

Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, Second Quarter 2007

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2006-16

26 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2006

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Using data from the Illinois Tollway, the authors study the effectiveness of a particular application of pricing incentives, in conjunction with a mass-marketing campaign, to foster adoption of electronic toll collection. Dissecting the consumer response by income level, the authors reveal interesting heterogeneity of consumer payment choice in this environment.

Keywords: payment choice, social network externalities, response to large relative price changes

JEL Classification: D12, R48

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Amromin, Gene and Jankowski, Carrie and Porter, Richard D., Transforming Payment Choices By Doubling Fees on the Illinois Tollway. Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, Second Quarter 2007, FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2006-16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=949858