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Comparitive Performance Analysis of European Airports by Means of Extended Data Envelopment Analysis
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - 2009
corporate organizations or economic agents. It has also found wide application in comparative studies on airport efficiency. The … standard DEA approach to comparative airport efficiency analysis has two feeble elements, viz. a methodological and a … the substantive weakness in airport efficiency analysis concerns the insufficient attention for short-term and long …
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Airport privatization and international competition
Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2010
the outcome where both airports are privatized is always an equilibrium while that where no airport is privatized is …
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Taxation, infrastructure investment, growth, and poverty reduction: A case study of Zimbabwe
Lofgren, Hans; Cicowiez, Martín - 2022
In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and the Covid-19 pandemic have added to the country's development challenges. This paper is concerned with the long-run need to find a path toward faster growth in GDP, employment,...
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The economic effects of high speed rail investment
de Rus, Ginés - 2008
The allocation of traffic between different transport modes follows transport user decisions which depend on the generalized cost of travel in the available alternatives. High Speed Rail (HSR) investment is a government decision with significant effects on the generalized cost of rail transport;...
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On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation
Goodspeed, Timothy J.; Haughwout, Andrew - 2007
Recent experience with disasters and terrorist attacks in the US indicates that state and local governments rely on the federal sector for support after disasters occur. But these same governments are responsible for investing in infrastructure designed to reduce vulnerability to natural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264051
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Inférence causale pour l'évaluation ex post des interventions dans les transports
Graham, Daniel J. - 2014
This paper reviews methods that seek to draw causal inference from non-experimental data and shows how they can be applied to undertake ex-post evaluation of transport interventions. In particular, the paper discusses the underlying principles of techniques for treatment effect estimation with...
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US-Wahl: gigantische wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen
Mildner, Stormy-Annika - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 11, pp. 718-719
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Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments
Bofinger, Heinrich C. - 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa's air transport, though low in overall volume when compared to other regions in the world, has experienced significant growth in the last decade, both in international and domestic traffic. The sector, in part because of its relatively small size, still faces the challenges of...
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Big data and smart aviation information management system
Dou, Xiangsheng - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
Aviation industry is facing two major challenges of safety and performance improvement. They will be expected to be resolved in the context of big data. This paper focuses on the impact of big data on aviation industry and the construction of aviation big data platform and its information...
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The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, … - 2004
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often...
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