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Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade
Clark, Ximena - 2004
determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent … explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime …
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Investment in Infrastructure and Trade : The Case of Ports
Brancaccio, Giulia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Papageorgiou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
theory to capture port technology, with tools from demand estimation. We use our framework, together with a collection of … unveils three policy-relevant messages: (i) investing in port infrastructure can lead to substantial trade and welfare gains …) there are sizable spillovers across ports, as investing in one port can decongest a wider set of ports, suggesting that …
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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2001
There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...
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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...
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The Female Happiness Paradox
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172192
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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David - 2006
On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466760
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The Rise of the Low Carbon Consumer City
Holian, Matthew J. - 2013
Urban density both facilitates consumption opportunities and encourages individuals to drive less and walk and use public transit more. Using several data sets, we document that high quality of life consumer center cities are low carbon cities. We discuss possible causal channels for this...
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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Privatizing social security
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000645265