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liberalization and facilitation, trade facilitation, and transport and logistics services regulatory regime. The analysis was based …
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Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … in international vertical specialization, the need for efficient logistics services becomes ever more important. High …
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This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...
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KRUGMAN and LIVAS ELIZONDO (1996) had shown how, in some cases, policies of commercial liberalization -like those experienced by the countries that become members of the EU - could improve the distribution of the manufacturing production between central and peripherical regions in a country in...
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This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260437
This paper analyses the impact of transport infrastructures on the economic growth of both regions and sectors, distinguishing among modes of transport. It also attempts to capture the spillover effects or network effects associated with transport infrastructures. Two different methodologies are...
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The private sector plays an increasing and relevant role in highway funding and management. For that reason, the regulation designed and enforced by public authorities becomes even more important for the social welfare results generated by this process. In this study, we analyze the current...
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, ports). The article focuses on the insufficiency/deficiency of the existing national highway system and underlines the …
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This paper offers suggestions for rethinking and reanalysing the relation between transport infrastructure and economic development. It shows the diversity of firms? reactions to infrastructure, depending on the mechanisms of coordination at work between actors. Our research aims to show that...
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The goal of this work is to contribute to the debate on and the understanding of the relationship between air transportation and tourism development. More specifically, it aims at unveiling whether investment in new transport infrastructures always boosts tourists' flows. A survey allows to...
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