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Infrastructure?s Long-Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics

Grimes, Arthur; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major … importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy …-makers to understand the intended, and potentially unintended, long run consequences of their infrastructure investment …

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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project: the port of Gioia Tauro

Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the …, managerial response and social acceptability can be key determinants of long term effects of a large infrastructure project, more …

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Regulation of Port Charges in Spain: Global versus Local Competition

Gonzalez-Aregall, Marta; Fageda, Xavier - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This article examines the determinants of traffic volumes and the revenues per tonne generated by Spain?s port authorities. The interest of the study lies on the strong differences between port authorities in a context of strict regulation but that provides some scope for price competition. We...

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Theory and empirics of horizontal and spatial integration of local communal services

Czako, Katalin; Poreisz, Veronika - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...

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A regional analysis of Tourism Specialization in Spain

Perez-Dacal, Diana; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Tourism sector is playing an important role in the development of a region, contributing to the economy growth and job creation. Despite of the actual crisis, Tourism activities continues to growth in the last year (UNWTO 2011). Also, Spain maintains in the better positions of the world ranking....

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Smart and sustainable cities in the European Union. A tentative set of indicators

pedrini, giulio; Manitiu, Dorel Nicolae - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Cities are crucial actors in shaping economic systems, being engines of economic growth. Not surprisingly, cities have become an autonomous field of policy intervention in order to address the present global crisis through a governance process capable to achieve economic, environmental and...

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Ranking German regions using interregional migration - What does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?

Wirth, Benjamin - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...

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The Russian Urban System in Transition: The View of New Economic Geography

Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2013

After the price liberalization in 1991, the Russian economy was faced with a jump of costs of transportation in real terms. New Economic Geography (NEG) gives answers to questions that are related to changes in transport costs. However, the outcomes of NEG models are very sensitive with respect...

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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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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...

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