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High Speed Rail System and the Tourism Market: Between Accessibility, Image and Coordination Tool
delaplace, marie; bazin, sylvie; pagliara, francesca; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014
tourism market, in order to identify the possible best practices aiming to enhance the value of the tourist activities. This … economy, in general, and of the tourism in particular. Although expectations are important in France as abroad, a literature … because of the implementation of the High-Speed service. More specifically, we show that different types of tourism are …
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Evaluating the Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture: a tourist perception approach
Remoaldo, Paula; Santos, José; Vareiro, Laurentina; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The evaluation of the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) by external entities has become a requirement after the Decision n.º 1622/2006/EC of the European Commission. Simultaneously, as festivals, fairs and international exhibitions, and sporting mega events were taking an increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818287
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LOCAL CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION
BOURDIN, Sebastien - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The measure of the regional disparities in the European Union was widely approached on the literature. Recent years have seen a spate of studies taking into account the spatial aspect of data in the analysis of convergence from an empirical viewpoint, or integrating spatial interdependencies...
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Welfare Impacts of Road Construction Using a Public -Private Partnership: A CGE Analysis of a Project
REGE, Sameer; FORTUNA, Mario - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper analysis the welfare changes arising from a road project, undertaken as a public-private partnership, measured as the variation in utility, using a sequentially dynamic general equilibrium model. To circumvent the budget restriction imposed by the central government, the Azorean...
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Metropolitan Multiregional Input-Output Modelling Framework
Ferreira, Joao Pedro; Ramos, Pedro; Cruz, Luis; Barata, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing expansion phenomena both in terms of population and extension. Naturally, these processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the territories. Through the last decade, population in suburbs...
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Consumption Expenditures in Economic Impact Studies: An Application to University Students
Hermannsson, Kristinn; McGregor, Peter; Swales, Kim - European Regional Science Association - 2013
those focusing on the impacts of tourism, benefits systems or student expenditures, these binomial assumptions are not …
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Development Gaps in the Sud Muntenia Region of Romania
Iordan, Marioara; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ghizdeanu, Ion; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740477
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Benchmark Value Added Chains and Regional Clusters in German R&D Intensive Industries
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Titze, Mirko - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Strong regional clusters are increasingly seen as a response to economic globalization by policy makers and regional development agencies. The reasoning of competitive advantages of countries and regions with enterprises organized in clusters has mainly been popularized by Porter (1990, 1998,...
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What determines the position of regions in European knowledge networks? A comparative perspective on R&D collaboration, co-patent and co-publication networks
Wanzenböck, Iris; Scherngell, Thomas; Brenner, Thomas - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The question of why certain regions are more efficient in creating new knowledge is one of the main research issues in Regional Science. In the recent past, inter-regional knowledge networks ? defined as the inter-linkage of collaborative endeavours in knowledge creation across regional...
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The Urban Hierarchy Unraveled: A Meta-Analysis on the Rank-Size Rule
Groot, Henri De; Mulder, Peter; Kamphorst, Marten - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper presents a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the Rank-Size Rule for the size distribution of cities. Our analysis covers 1669 estimates derived from 59 studies. As such, our analysis presents a substantial extension of an earlier meta-analysis by Nitsch (2004) performed on...
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