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The paper surveys the main contributions of new economic geography from the point of view of transport analysis. It shows that decreasing transport costs is likely to exacerbate regional disparities. However, very low transport costs should foster a more balanced distribution for economic...
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There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following basic trade-off: the concentration of activities decreases...
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This paper focuses on two issues that challenge the accepted pessimistic view that regional trade agreements (RTAs) between developing countries in welfare terms by taking into account scale economies in transport. First, how is the standard welfare analysis of an RTA affected by the endogeneity...
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, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …
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represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …
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sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be … structures are considered for the energy market, free entry and natural monopoly. First, it is shown that investment subsidies … may induce a larger equilibrium investment into cleaner technologies either under free entry or natural monopoly. However …
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contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa … combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …, especially in oil-exporting countries. Chinese investment, however, increasingly involves other sectors, such as the …
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adjustment costs on investment. …
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Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a … sign that something is "wrong" and is to be regarded as a problem for policy. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand …, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy …
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This paper presents a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment (the interest … those countries,investment relationships are estimated explaining investment by its user cost, sales and cash flow.A first … result is that investment is sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. Thisimplies an operative interest …
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