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Boyle, Glenn W.; Hill, James - 2016

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Three feet under : urban jobs, connectivity, and infrastructure : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper

Rentschler, Jun; Braese, Johannes; Jones, Nick; Avner, Paolo - 2019

This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The...

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Télétravail et demande de transport : une évaluation dans le modèle PLANET

Laine, Benoît; Daubresse, Coraline - 2020

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Transport and enlargement : (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia)

Piodi, Franco - 2000 - Ms. compl. Oct. 1999

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Transport Infrastructure and Welfare : An Application to Nigeria

Ali, Rubaba - 2015

Transport infrastructure is deemed to be central to development and consumes a large fraction of the development assistance envelope. Yet there is debate about the economic impact of road projects. This paper proposes an approach to assess the differential development impacts of alternative road...

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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis

Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure

Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...

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The Belt and Road Initiative : reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?

Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony - 2019

This paper develops a computable spatial equilibrium model of Central Asia and uses it to analyze the possible effects of the Belt Road Initiative on the economy of the region. The model captures international and subnational economic units and their connectivity to each other and the rest of...

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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects

Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020

Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross … instance, the perceived commuting distance significantly depends on the time needed to reach the corresponding workplace and … commuting outflow. A similar impact is found with respect to housing costs, that is the cheaper is the relative house price of …

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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs

Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024

We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a … partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for … wage) to reduce commuting distance at the margin. The average men's marginal willingness to pay is similar to childless …

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