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Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a …
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. Clearly, air transport, but also technological advances and changing lifestyles formed the background of this megatrend …
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This paper studies the efficiency impacts of private toll roads in initially untolled networks. The analysis allows for capacity and toll choice by private operators, and endogenizes entry and therewith the degree of competition, distinguishing and allowing for both parallel and serial...
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This paper deals with the optimal provision of infrastructure by means of public-private partnership contracts. Inthe … economic literature infrastructure is characterized as a large, indivisible and non-rival capital good thatproduces services … for its users. The non-rivalness or nonexcludability of the infrastructure and the large costs ofinfrastructure causes it …
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This paper analyzes the effects of price differentiation and discrimination by a monopolistic transport operator, which …
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This paper discusses a number of issues centred around the evaluation of the benefits and costs of transport. It is … argued that, for various reasons, transport cannot be treated as an ‘ordinary’ economic sector, and in the paper the policy …
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This review considers the role of environmental effects in transport investment appraisal, mainly from the perspective …
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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