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Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes
Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, … - 2021
existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a … large-scale public investment in roads during the 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622734
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Highways, market access, and spatial sorting
Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017
We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761580
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How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism : evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions
Dörr, Luisa; Dorn, Florian; Gäbler, Stefanie; … - 2019
We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and promotes travelling to the touristic region Allgäu in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157335
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Labour demand in Germany : an assessment of non-wage labour costs
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2003
The data indicate that non-wage labour costs in Germany have reached a record high in recent years. From 1972 to 2001 …, the ratio of non-wage labour costs to direct compensation in West German manufacturing industry rose from 55.6 per cent to … 81.2 per cent. The topic of non-wage labour costs is increasingly being discussed among and between the political parties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507925
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518242
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Urban congestion charging : theory, practice and environmental consequences
Santos, Georgina; Newbery, David M. G. - 2001
The theory of road pricing developed for single links suggests time andlocation varying charges equal to the marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400380
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Efficiency of decentralized road investment and pricing in a multi-jurisdictional city with spillovers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013
decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792215
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The political economy of pricing car access to downtown commercial districts
De Borger, Bruno L.; Russo, Antonio - 2015
We develop a positive theory of pricing car access (by parking fees or cordon tolls) to downtown commercial districts. The model accounts for the special interests of downtown retailers and competing superstores at the edge of the city, and studies how lobbying by both groups shapes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506338
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The political economy of cordon tolls
De Borger, Bruno L.; Russo, Antonio - 2015
This paper studies the political economy of cordon tolls, the most common form of road pricing in cities. We consider a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350197
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Slot-based approaches to airport congestion management
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711873