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“The determinants of contractual choice for private involvement in infrastructure projects in the United States”
Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Geddes, R. Richard - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012
Reliance on private partners to help provide infrastructure investment and service delivery is increasing in the United … States. Numerous studies have examined the determinants of the degree of private participation in infrastructure projects as … estimates indicate that infrastructure characteristics, particularly those that reflect “stand alone” versus network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598737
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Measuring Well-Being: W3 Indicators to Complement GDP
Giesselmann, Marco; Hilmer, Richard; Siegel, Nico A.; … - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2013
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society’s prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691984
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International Access to Administrative Data for Germany and Europe
Bender, Stefan; Burghardt, Anja; Schiller, David - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2014
In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata – although there are some developments like "Data without Boundaries" – is still complicated and needs improvement.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757498
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Infrastructure and the international export performance of Turkish regions
Celbis M.G.; Nijkamp P.; Poot J. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856318
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The growth of outward FDI and the competitiveness of the underlying economy: the case of India
Narula, Rajneesh; Prasad Kodiyat, Tiju - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
sustainable. Systematic upgrading and radical policy changes are needed to build up India's knowledge infrastructure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856415
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“When supply travels far beyond demand: Institutional and regulatory causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure”
Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2013
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662751
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Why should we share our data, how can it be organized, and what are the challenges ahead?
Huschka, Denis - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2013
Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of societies, especially of those societies that undergo rapid social changes. Empirical analyses are fed into the steering processes that are shaping a Europe of Nations. But data are also essential for the support of...
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Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2013
schools of thought: The infrastructure school (which is concerned with the technological architecture), the public school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667187
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A Matched Employer-Employee Panel Data Set for Austria: 2002-2005
Freund, Inga; Mahlberg, Bernhard; Prskawetz, Alexia - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2012
Matched employer-employee (panel) data sets are gaining increasing importance in the analysis of labour markets. In collaboration with Statistics Austria we recently initiated the set up of a matched employer-employee panel data set for Austria, which covers the years 2002-2005. The aim of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667188
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Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but not Practised
Andreoli-Versbach, Patrick; Mueller-Langer, Frank - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667190