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On ya bike? : a review of the Christchurch cycleway network business case
Boyle, Glenn W.; Hill, James - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592825
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Three feet under : urban jobs, connectivity, and infrastructure : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Braese, Johannes; Jones, Nick; Avner, Paolo - 2019
This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052029
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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis
Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002696
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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure
Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004784
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The Belt and Road Initiative : reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?
Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony - 2019
This paper develops a computable spatial equilibrium model of Central Asia and uses it to analyze the possible effects of the Belt Road Initiative on the economy of the region. The model captures international and subnational economic units and their connectivity to each other and the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008368
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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391314
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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross … instance, the perceived commuting distance significantly depends on the time needed to reach the corresponding workplace and … commuting outflow. A similar impact is found with respect to housing costs, that is the cheaper is the relative house price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306744
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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013
This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity is financed by budget-balancing user fees,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792215
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Transport and the environment in the EU : [summary]
2000 - Ms. compl. Sep. 1999
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Travel with dogs: the need to accommodate "messy trips" in healthy and sustainable transport transitions
Kent, Jennifer L.; Mulley, Corinne - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821787