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Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells's Conversion to Free Trade

Meardon, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

A moment of consequence to the postbellum U.S. tariff debate was the 'conversion' of David Ames Wells, Commissioner of the Revenue from 1865- 1870, to free trade. When he began his work Wells was a disciple of the eminent American protectionist Henry C. Carey. By the age of forty, however, he...

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INVESTIGATING THE POWER IN FREIGHT TRANSPORT COMMUNICATION NETWORK STRUCTURE

Cisic, Dragan; Komadina, Pavao; Kesic, Blanka - EconWPA - 2000

The business of freight transportation is undergoing a technological revolution at it moves toward the 21st century …. New technologies are being developed and adopted in each mode of freight transportation. The one technology that affects … transfer points, to consignees. Surveys of the freight transportation industry indicate that the adoption of EDI has not been …

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MODELLING THE DOCUMENTATION FLOW IN TRANSPORT SUPPLY CHAIN - RESULTS FROM THE SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS

Pocuca, Milojka; Cisic, Dragan; Komadina, Pavao - EconWPA - 2000

The focal point of interest in the research was directed towards the communications flows within the logistics value chain, since the influence of the electronic commerce technologies has become more and more evident. In order to be able to define the characteristics of the system, these...

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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Research of the Power in the Supply chain

Cisic, Dragan; Kesic, Blanka; Jakomin, Livij - EconWPA - 2000

With the recent advent of computer-based communication technologies, communication networks have become an important factor in global interaction. The world in the information age may be described as being connected by a lattice of networks. The analysis of the communication network in the...

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Application of Transaction Costs to Choice of Transport Corridors

KYLAHEIKO, KALEVI; CISIC, DRAGAN; KOMADINA, PAVAO - EconWPA - 2000

Fundamental changes suggest new approaches in the research field concerning the role and impacts of transport corridors. We argue that the changes in dynamics of the hinterlands of seaports, as well as the changes in the logistic concepts are the main reasons for redefining the transport...

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TOWARDS THE UNIFIED THEORY OF THE PORT GRAVITATIONAL AREAS INTRODUCING INFORMATION CENTRALITY FACTORS

Kesic, Blanka; Komadina, Pavao; Cisic, Dragan - EconWPA - 2000

A number of methods are available for determining the limits of port gravitational areas, geographic, geometrical, mainland-tariff method or total transport cost method. The basic drawback of this methods is that they take in the account either cost or geographical elements Unified theory of the...

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MEASURING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SEMI- PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above mentioned issue and to propose an alternative...

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Borderplex Bridge and Air Econometric Forecast Accuracy

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton - EconWPA - 2005

transportation equations. One sub-system models northbound surface traffic across the international bridges from Ciudad Juarez. The … of borderplex transportation variable forecast accuracy relative to a random walk benchmark is completed. Empirical …

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Quality Externalities among Hotel Establishments: What is the Impact of Tour Operators

Calveras, Aleix; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is about quality decisions in a vertical structure where competitive producers sell to powerful retailers. Specifically, we focus the analysis on the role played by a tour operator on quality investments when distributing the capacity of a given tourist destination. We emphasize the...

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