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Road Pricing for Heavy Goods Vehicles Transport. Assessing the Economic Impact in a Disaggregated Macroeconometric Model
Kratena, Kurt; Puwein, Wilfried - 2002
The paper assesses the economic impact of a toll imposed on heavy-goods vehicles proportional to distance driven. The macroeconomic impact of the toll is estimated by using the disaggregated econometric model MULTIMAC of the Austrian economy. The assumption is that all toll revenues will be...
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Der Nord-Ostsee-Kanal in der Krise: Plädoyer für eine Reform
Böhme, Hans; Sichelschmidt, Henning - 1997
Verminderung der abgabenpflichtigen Schiffstonnage gekennzeichnet; die durch den Kanal beförderte Ladungsmenge schwankt etwa um das … aus, der zum Verlust von Großschiffsverkehr durch den Kanal führte. Folge sind rückläufige Einnahmen und von den Nutzern …
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Panama country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
Between 2000 and 2012, Panama boasted the strongest economic growth in Latin America. The growth experience was not …
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What are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks? Evidence from Dollarized Countries
Willems, Tim - 2010
Traditional ways of analyzing the effects of monetary policy shocks via structural vector autoregressions require the use of unrealistic identifying assumptions: they either do not allow for a response of output and prices on impact of the shock, or they exclude contemporaneous values of these...
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There's More Than One Way to Get a House: Housing Strategies in Panama
Jacobs, Michael; Savedoff, William D. - 1999
This paper uses household data from two cities in Panama to evaluate the determinants of the tenure decision in the …
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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Speaking up about the labor code: A survey of employed and unemployed in Panama
Spinanger, Dean - 1986
In the first part of this project the Labor Code (LC) in Panama was analyzed with respect to its impact on the demand … labor market policies in Panama? …
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The Toll Index: Innovation-based Economic Telemetry
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
We present the operationalized Toll Index, which is a new type of early indicator for the German business cycle. We present the basic idea and document the power of the indicator for the purpose of nowcasting. The data will be regularly available at the IDSC, the data bank center of IZA and will...
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Das Tauziehen um die Abgabenbelastung des Transportgewerbes ist nur über eine europäische Harmonisierung zu beenden
Kuhfeld, Hartmut; Kunert, Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 70 (2003) 13/14, pp. 202-209
entfernungsabhängigen Straßenbenutzungsgebühren (Lkw-Maut) bevor. Die Auseinandersetzungen um die dadurch entstehende zusätzliche …
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Erfolgsfaktoren von City-Maut-Systemen
Kloas, Jutta; Voigt, Ulrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 9, pp. 133-145
Seit geraumer Zeit werden in einigen Ländern Straßenbenutzungsgebühren in Innenstädten (City-Maut) zur … Verkehrsbeeinflussung sowie zur Finanzierung von Verkehrsinvestitionen erhoben. In den Städten, in denen eine City-Maut zur … und bei dem Großversuch in Stockholm führte die City-Maut zu einer deutlichen Reduktion des innerstädtischen …
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