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This paper analyses indirect effects that arise from network interdependence. If profitability of a new, tolled link depends on extraction of user surpluses previously enjoyed on the earlier network, addition of the new link can be welfare-negative. Thus the profit test cannot displace cost-benefit analysis.
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Gordon B. Mills (1995) studied this question.
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