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Transport Infrastructure Investment and Transport Sector Productivity on Economic Growth in South Africa (1975-2011)
CHETENI, PRIVILEDGE - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact of transport infrastructure investment and transport sector productivity on South African economic growth for the period 1975-2011. We use a Vector Error Correction Model and a Bayesian Vector Autoregressive model as empirical tools. The models provide an insight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108467
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Greenhouse gas emissions and marginal abatement cost curves for the road transport in Greece
Halkos, George; Kevork, Ilias; Tziourtzioumis, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In the current technical report, we consider for the Greek road transport various policies of emission control for the period 2014-2030, and for the first time we estimate the related greenhouse gas emissions expressed in CO2 equivalent and the total costs. These policies result from the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109352
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Emissions and abatement costs for the passenger cars sector in Greece
Halkos, George; Kevork, Ilias; Tziourtzioumis, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we present for Greece a methodology for predicting emissions and estimating the abatement costs of the transport sector, focusing our analysis on passenger cars. In the first section we estimate for the period 2000-2030 the annual emissions of the most important pollutants using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112923
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The Economics of Reindeer Herding: Saami Entrepreneurship between Cyclical Sustainability and the Powers of State and Oligopolies.
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper attempts to explain the drastic fall in income experienced by Saami reindeer herders in Northern Norway … reindeer meat, a traditional luxury product in Norway. This paper shows that a review of the literature is supported by …, mainly: cyclical climatic variation in Northern Norway; a system with fixed prices, independent of the variations in supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260854
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836657
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Cross Country Evidence on Consumption Persistence
Belbute, José; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
, Norway and United Kingdom is the main focus of the paper. Using a non-parametric methodology applied to annual data it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498480
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20 years of stated preference valuation of non-timber benefits from Fennoscandian forests: A meta-analysis
Lindhjem, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs) from forests in Norway, Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617090
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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data
Biorn, Erik; Godager, Geir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619524
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Could you hand me the efficiency section, please? Newspaper circulation and local government efficiency in Norway
Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of information in order to establish accountability. We develop an agency model with imperfect monitoring where newspapers provide voters with this information. The model predicts that an informed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622116
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Enterprise Performance, Privatization and the Role of Ownership in Norway
Tatahi, Motasam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
performances of private, public and mixed enterprises in Norway is compared through the use of factor analysis method. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756283