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Evaluating competitiveness of airports - Airport competitiveness index
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper introduces a concept of airport competitiveness index. The index consists of numerous indicators grouped into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087504
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Privatising Bratislava: Small Airport - Big Problem
Tomová, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In the paper we describe genezis of decentralisation and corporatisation of airport sector in the Slovak Republic to … reveal circumstances influencing expected decision about Bratislava airport privatisation in 2011. Special attention is … Airport privatisation. We also explain Bratislava Airport privatisation in light of overall privatisation status of Slovakian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367978
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Spatial competition for passengers and its influence on efficiency of European airports
Pavlyuk, Dmitry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
competition pressure for passengers among airports. In this paper we present a new adaptive definition of airport's catchment area …. Using this definition we develop an indicator of a level of competition pressure, based on overlapping of airport … distances from this frontier. We use a classic production approach to airport activities, where an airport enterprise uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108473
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Immigrants and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong
Ou, Dongshu; Kondo, Ayako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from 1991 to 2006 in Hong Kong, this paper documents how the distribution of workers’ earnings and the inequality of immigrants’ and natives’ earnings changed over time. We decompose earnings inequality to explore how the changes in immigrants’ share of the labor force have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259925
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Forecasting Hong Kong economy using factor augmented vector autoregression
Pang, Iris Ai Jao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This work applies the FAVAR model to forecast GDP growth rate, unemployment rate and inflation rate of the Hong Kong economy. There is no factor model forecasting literature on the Hong Kong economy. The objective is to find out whether factor forecasting of using a large dataset can improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228917
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House-Price Crash and Macroeconomic Crisis: A Hong Kong Case Study
Zhang, Tongbin; Hu, Bo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
House prices crash has become an important feature of macroeconomic crisis. We argue that house prices crash driven by contractionary monetary policy is not only a reaction to crisis, but also accelerates and amplifies the fluctuations of major macroeconomic variable. In this paper, we conduct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372559
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The Economic strategy for Hong Kong SAR: evidence from productivity and cost analysis
Li, Kui-Wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
By using a growth accounting framework for the period 1980-2000, this paper estimates Hong Kong’s total factor productivity and unit labor cost of twenty industries classified into three economic sectors of tradable goods, tradable services and non-tradable services. The results show that Hong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647432
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A Theory of Enclaves
Vinokurov, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The manuscript represents a comprehensive theory of enclaves and exclaves. The theory comprises both political and economic aspects. It is the first general book on the world’s enclaves and exclaves. Due to its comprehensive and pioneer character, it has a potential to become a book of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490550
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Financial sector output and employment in Hong Kong and New York City
He, Dong; Yong, Ivy; Lim, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
What is the future role for Hong Kong as an international financial centre in China? A few pointers can be found by analysing the role of New York as a national and global financial hub. The financial sector in New York currently employs twice as many people and generates four times as much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616971
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A Quantitative Study of Hong Kong's Fiscal Policy
Wong, Chi Shing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Given the adoption of the linked exchange rate since October 1983, fiscal policy becomes the only measurement for stabilizing the Hong Kong economy. This paper attempts to establish a framework for evaluating the fiscal effect to prevent the abuse of fiscal measures. The empirical study of Jha...
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