Herbert Mohring

Herbert Mohring
Born 1928
Buffalo, New York
Died June 4, 2012(2012-06-04) (aged 83)
Northfield, Minnesota
Nationality American
Institution University of Minnesota
Field Transportation economics
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Influences Robert Solow
Contributions Mohring effect

Herbert Mohring (1928 – June 4, 2012) was a transportation economist who taught at the University of Minnesota from 1961–1994.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959,[3] which a thesis on the life insurance industry supervised by Robert Solow.[4]

He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the Mohring effect of increasing returns in public transportation (see: Mohring (1972) for details).

Mohring and Harwitz (1962) also showed that the revenues from the first-best congestion tax exactly cover the construction costs of highways when highways possess constant returns to scale.

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