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The contracting of urban bus services – Recent Australian developments
Wallis, Ian P.; Bray, David J. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 48-61
-established private operators), competitive tendering has been progressively implemented for bus services in Sydney and Melbourne, and is …Since 2011, very significant developments have occurred in the procurement and contracting of bus services in major … also planned for Brisbane. All bus services in Adelaide and some services in Perth, which were previously competitively …
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Personenverkehr in Deutschland - mobil bei hohen Kosten
Kunert, Uwe; Radke, Sabine - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 24, pp. 3-12
der hohen Bedeutung des Fuß- und Fahrradverkehrs für die nahräumliche Erreichbarkeit ist die Bevölkerung in Deutschland …
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Competition in Multi-Modal Transport Networks: A Dynamic Approach
Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik van der; Verhoef, Erik T.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
influence the price differential, and how this affects welfare. …
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Costs for Swedish public transport authorities in tendered bus contracts
Vigren, Andreas - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014
The main objective of this paper is to investigate how different factors affect costs for Swedish Public Transport Authorities (PTA). A theoretical framework is presented for the empirics, a cross sectional regression analysis with cost and supply data from 20 Swedish counties for the year 2012....
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The choice between bus and light rail transit: a stylised cost-benefit analysis model
Grimaldi, Raffaele; Laurino, Antonio; Beria, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
truly convenient compared to bus systems. This paper tries to give a contribution by developing a simplified model to … support the choice between keeping a bus corridor or upgrading towards a light rail system. The choice is analysed on the …
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Unconventional factors of efficiency in public transport. A case study and theory.
Beria, Paolo; Grimaldi, Raffaele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
analysis rises from a case study in the southern Italian region of Sicily. Most of the regional bus service is here … historically franchised to some local private bus companies, without tenders or any other form of competition. The structure of the … network has never been planned ex-ante, as it is the result of negotiations among bus companies, local and regional …
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Una Aplicación de Métodos de Detección de Burbuja Inmobiliaria: Caso Chile
Idrovo Aguirre, Byron; Lennon S., Joaquín - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article analyzes the presence of a price bubble in the new house market for the Greater Santiago. For the above …
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Estimation and Testing Using Jackknife IV in Heteroskedastic Regressions with Many Weak Instruments
Swanson, Norman R.; Chao, John C. - Econometric Society - 2004
This paper develops Wald-type tests for general (possibly nonlinear) restrictions in the context of a weakly-identified heteroskedastic IV regression. In particular, it is first shown that, in a framework with many weak instruments, consistency and asymptotic normality can be obtained when...
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A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
Ganong, Peter; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The Regression Kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method, with more than 20 studies circulated using RK in the last 5 years since the initial circulation of Card, Lee, Pei and Weber (2012). We document empirically that these estimates, which typically use local linear...
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Precios de productos almacenables: implicaciones del modelo de inventarios
Eugenio S.A. Bodenrieth H. - In: Estudios de Economia 31, 1 Year 2004, pp. 67-78
Las variaciones de inventarios son reconocidas, por participantes del mercado y por la literatura, como relevantes en la determinación de precios de activos almacenables. Este artículo presenta resultados de la literatura en modelos dinámicos de expectativas racionales basados en variaciones...
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