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We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …
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. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and …
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This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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According to the essential facilities doctrine, competition law requires an infrastructural monopoly to provide access. Under the "Bronner criterion", proposed by the EC Court, the doctrine is only applicable when an infrastructural duopoly is non-viable. This paper uses a simple model to...
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This paper surveys the main issues and controversies in the economic literature on infrastructure in developing … countries. Section I reviews the evidence on the role of infrastructure in promoting economic growth. It is argued that …, although infrastructure may be more important for growth than other types of capital, the exact size and form of its effect is …
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Bei der Fortschreibung des Regionalplans Düsseldorf werden erstmalig die mit dem neuen Landesentwicklungsplan NRW geforderten "Zentralörtlich bedeutsamen Allgemeinen Siedlungsbereiche (zASB)" ausgewiesen. Hierbei handelt es sich um Siedlungsbereiche, die über ein räumlich gebündeltes...
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Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency … necessary and sufficient factors to economically favor climate-change resilient infrastructure in private investment decisions … of climate-resilient infrastructure. The Paris Agreement and other supra-local policies and actors including city …
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How does hope emerge as a life-altering possibility against the backdrop of economic precarity, political disregard, and soaring inequality? This paper explores the role of hope as both a political-economic construct and an infrastructural affect in the wake of policy implementation. It draws on...
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Nordroute in den russischen Zentralraum könnte die verbesserte Infrastruktur der Kernstrecke bedeutende Zeitersparnisse von über …The study concludes that Europe should respond to China's New Silk Road initiative with a coherent infrastructure … in particular needs an upgrading of its transport infrastructure. If this is achieved, the boost to incomes and living …
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Infrastructure is the economic growth theory of the market economy. The missing comprehensive approach to … infrastructure corresponds to the practiced neglect of the long-term policy objective of economic growth in the economic order of the …, institutional and personal infrastructure, infrastructure policy as an indirect approach to economic growth policy is suggested. The …
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