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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance and FirmHeterogeneity
Behar, Alberto; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009
We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selectioninto trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting…firms takes a gravity form: the extensive margin is also accected by...
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EXPORTS AND LOGISTICS
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009
Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
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The effect of large infrastructure on urban development: The example of the canton of Geneva
Stämpfli, Pierre - Center for Urban & Real Estate Management <Zürich> - 2007
and Real Estate Management (CUREM) in Zurich. The Goal was to analyze the relation between big infrastructure and urban … evolution was observed from 1980 to 2000 in order to study both the evolutions previous to the new road infrastructure and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870914
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Metasysteme für den elektronischen Fracht- und Laderaumausgleich
Schneider, Sabine; Bierwirth, Christian; Kopfer, Herbert - 2000
Transportbörsen sind Systeme, mit denen überbetrieblich Fracht- und Laderaum ausgeglichen wird. Speditionen dienen diese zum Austausch von Transportaufträgen, die sie nicht selbst bedienen wollen oder können. Hierzu gehören Volumina aus Auftragsspitzen, Aufträge, die für den Aufbau neuer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840448
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Cooperative ant colonies for optimizing resource allocation in transportation
Doerner, Karl; Hartl, Richard F.; Reimann, Marc - 2000
In this paper we propose an ACO approach, where two colonies of ants aim to optimize total costs in a transportation network. This main objective consists of two sub goals, namely fleet size minimization and minimization of the vehicle movement costs, which are conflicting for some regions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841633
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New Answers to Old Questions: Explaining the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper re-examines theories previously advanced to explain Lancashire’s slowadoption of ring spinning. New cost estimates show that although additionaltransport costs and technical complementarities between certain types of machinereduced ring adoption rates, these supply side constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870750
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How did the Location of Industry Respond To Falling Transport Costs in Britain Before World War I?
Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Mulatu, Abay - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
This paper explores the location of industry in pre-World-War-I Britain using a model that takes account both of factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870951
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Market Potential in British Regions, 1871-1931
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
accessibility. The results show that the North, Scotland and Wales were much less 'peripheral' before World War I than in 1985. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870952
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Linearisierungsverfahren f¨ur Standortplanungsproblememit nichtlinearen Transportkosten
Stolletz, Raik; Stolletz; Lars - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2008
Transportkosten, die an praxisrelevanteFrachtsatztabellen angelehnt sind. F¨ur diese nicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867428
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Gates, hubs and urban primacyin Sub-Saharan Africa
Pholo Bala, Alain - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2009
domestic economy linked to the rest of the World through a hub. We address that issue bydeveloping two three regions model … World, while the two others compose thedomestic economy. One region of the Domestic economy, the hub, exhibits a … ‘geographical advantage’ interms of easier access to the rest of the World. We find the standard result that decreases in transports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868644