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This paper presents a model of strategic locational choice by duopolistic firms in an urban area where consumer locations are endogenous and where a public facility is exogenously fixed. A welfare analysis taking their strategic behaviour into account is conducted. It is shown that the firms'...
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regions to 180 countries for the years 2002 through to 2010. Regional transportation and communication infrastructure capacity …, the positioning of point infrastructure in a region, and geography are explicitly accounted for. Our results highlight … that land infrastructure, air transport capacity, and private maritime infrastructure presence, together with the distance …
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sustainable. Systematic upgrading and radical policy changes are needed to build up India's knowledge infrastructure and …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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The supply of motorways reduces travel time costs by road, affecting thus the demand for road transport. Besides these intramodal effects, there exist intermodal effects too as far as motorways have impact on the demand of the competing modes. In this paper we establish and estimate a model that...
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This paper analyzes Spanish infrastructure policy since the early 1700s: Road building in the eighteenth century … twenty-first. The analysis reveals a long-term pattern, in which infrastructure policy in Spain has been driven not by the … national budget have regularly been used to decide the priorities regarding infrastructure creation and to fund the development …
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Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain’s infrastructure policy. …
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How should a policy-maker prioritize interventions to improve the public infrastructure with which firms operate and … public input character of physical infrastructure and institutions, and uses an O-ring production function to model the … impact of poor quality infrastructure on output. Using survey data from over 72,000 firms in 95 countries, we verify the …
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into joint ventures is especially relevant in the context of infrastructure projects in developing countries, though other …
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The paper analyses governments’ trade-off between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...
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