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Travel with dogs: the need to accommodate "messy trips" in healthy and sustainable transport transitions
Kent, Jennifer L.; Mulley, Corinne - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821787
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Estimating the effect of urban road congestion on air quality in Latin America
Bedoya-Maya, Felipe; Calatayud, Agustina; González … - 2022
Road congestion and air pollution are key challenges for quality of life in urban settings. This research leverages highly disaggregated crowdsourced data from Latin America to study the effect of road congestion on levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter in four of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494332
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Trade in land transport services : railways
Mukherjee, Arpita (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002582926
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The European railway sectors : understanding and assessing change
Esposito, Giovanni; Doleschel, Julia; Kaloud, Tobias; … - 2017 - Draft: December 27, 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770336
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Entry in liberalized railway markets : the German experience
Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2007 - Rev. version
In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387556
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Industrial structure and privatisation of the Slovenian electricity industry
Hrovatin, N. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001369253
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Infrastructure quality in deregulated industries : is there an underinvestment problem
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729423
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Privatizations in developing countries and the government's budget constraint
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - 2002
with increasing returns to scale. We show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the … privatization is likely to disappear once the product market allows the entry of more than one firm.In this paper, we study the … show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the shadow cost of public funds (i.e., the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597781
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The political economy of privatization : why do governments want reforms?
Börner, Kira Astrid - 2004
International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606637
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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004
Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two … transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606874