A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over …

-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following … cities, but it increases emissions of greenhouse gas by inducing longer worktrips. What matters for the ecological footprint … of cities is the mix between urban density and the global pattern of activities. As expected, when both the intercity and …

We consider a model where the central bank faces a credibility problem in its announcements, but also cares about its … credibility and, therefore, wants to make truthful announcements. We show that, although the central bank would be able to …

For the last thirty years, port governance has been marked by a new level of complexity which has resulted in the … modes of governance and is now attempting to explain how they are linked to port performance Models of port governance … on public decision-making and the institutional models applied in port governance in 7 European countries and Canada. It …

What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm … worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its … knowledge on this specific issue. The potential influence of the World Bank's main governance indicators: Country Policy and …

We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking … institutional quality that encounter a credibility problem in monetary management. …

This article discusses the World Bank's formal rules of governance. It states that theoretically, each of the World … and their attached conditions. In the second place, four features of the World Bank's governance which protect and re … rules of governance give the G10 the voting weight at all three levels of decision making but several governing features …