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Zur Frage einer Infrastrukturlücke Ostdeutschlands gegenüber Westdeutschland

Sichelschmidt, Henning (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Commuting, externalities, and the geographical sizes of metropolitan areas

Bode, Eckhardt (contributor) - 2006

The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the … using land prices to measure their aggregate effects, the approach estimates the geographical reach of commuting and urban … areas may be larger than suggested by MSA classifications based on commuting only. Metropolitan subcenters are found to …

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Verkehrsspezifische Ausgaben und Einnahmen der Gebietskörperschaften in Deutschland : eine empirische Analyse

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Rosenschon, Astrid - 2001

Betrieb von Einrichtungen der Verkehrsinfrastruktur zu realisieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird versucht, mittels einer …

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Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Tarasov, Alexander - 2021

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to unlock the welfare gains from regional economic integration. Yet, despite being one of the oldest government activities, the economic forces shaping the endogenous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507897

Optimal investments in Africa's road network

Krantz, Sebastian - 2024 - This draft: August 30, 2024

This paper characterizes economically optimal investments into Africa's road network in partial and general equilibrium - based on a detailed topography of the network, road construction costs, frictions in cross-border trading, and economic geography. Drawing from data on 144 million...

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Optimal investments in Africa's road network

Krantz, Sebastian - 2024

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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Bayerlein, Michael - 2022

A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the...

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Self-insurance and self-protection as public goods

Lohse, Tim; Robledo, Julio; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010

Most pure public goods like lighthouses, dams, or national defense provide utility mainly by insuring against hazardous events. Our paper focuses on this insurance character of public goods. As for private actions against hazardous events, one can distinguish between self-insurance (SI) and...

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Selfish-biased conditional cooperation : on the decline of contributions in repeated public goods experiments

Neugebauer, Tibor; Perote, Javier; Schmidt, Ulrich; … - 2007

In the recent literature, several hypotheses have been put forward in order to explain the decline of contributions in repeated public good games. We present results of an experiment which allows to evaluate these hypotheses. The main characteristics of our experimental design are a variation of...

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Eliciting preferences for public goods in non-monetized communities : accounting for preference uncertainty

Pondorfer, Andreas; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015

One major challenge when conducting contingent valuation studies in developing countries is the choice of the appropriate payment vehicle. Since regular cash-income does not exist for the majority of the population and market integration is low, households in rural areas have less experience...

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