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Information & communication technologies - panacea for traffic congestion?

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

making traffic flow more efficiently in a given infrastructure. Furthermore, the virtual world gives rise to new business … continues to drive qualitative improvements in traffic conditions, e-business and telework in particular have, for structural … reasons, a much less pronounced effect on traffic than widely presumed. ICT helps in organising traffic flows more efficiently …

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The New Italian Road Code and the virtues of the ‘shame lane’

Richiardi, Matteo - EconWPA - 2004

In July 2003 a new Road Code was approved by the Italian parliament. Among many reforms whose validity is not questioned here, the new law states that on three-lane motorways the right lane should not be reserved anymore to slow vehicles alone. As in two-lane roads, all vehicles must now drive...

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De l’atelier à l’utopie. Consultants et projets de société dans la tourmente (1930 – 1944)

LEVANT, Yves; NIKITIN, Marc - EconWPA - 2005

In the first half of the 20th century France, consultants offered their services to big firms, sometimes successfully. In a somewhat cloudy economic context, some of them, like Bedaux or Perrin, elaborated more ambitious social projects, in order to cope with the economic disorders. All those...

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS)industry, applying an internationally comparative perspective. The report untangles factors behind the extraordinary growth of the BS industry during last decade,comparing it...

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Sources of structural growth in business services

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

This report identifies the factors behind structural growth of the business services industry, applying growth decomposition and qualitative analysis.

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

In most OECD countries, the business services industry has grown much faster than the market sector as a whole. The industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity...

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Business services and the Baumol disease

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

The business services industry represents a large and fast-growing chunk of the Dutch economy, approaching the size of the total manufacturing industry. The industry, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, accompanied in some years by a fall in productivity. Do these stylised...

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Opting-out in profit-sharing regulation

Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola - EconWPA - 2004

To avoid the extremely high profit levels found in recent experiences with price cap regulation, some regulators have proposed a profit- sharing mechanism that revises prices to the benefit of consumers. This paper investigates the conditions under which a regulator can implement such a...

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Opting-out in profit-sharing regulation

Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola - EconWPA - 2004

To avoid the extremely high profit levels found in recent experiences with price cap regulation, some regulators have proposed a profit-sharing mechanism that revises prices to the benefit of consumers. This paper investigates the conditions under which a regulator can implement such a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561433

Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?

Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …

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