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Passenger transport planning : a benefit-cost analysis of the high speed railway : the case of Spain

Casares, Pedro; Coto-Millán, Pablo - In: Atlantic review of economics 2 (2011), pp. 1-12

In the current economical and financial crisis, the economic evaluation of transport infrastructure investment projects is of most importance. Given the need of most governments to reduce spending and control the deficit, having tools that facilitate decision-making seems to be a key objective....

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Verkehrsinfrastruktur : Substanzerhaltung erfordert deutlich höhere Investitionen

Kunert, Uwe; Link, Heike - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 26, pp. 32-38

Eine quantitativ und qualitativ leistungsfähige Verkehrsinfrastruktur ist für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft mit ihrem … Voraussetzung für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und Wohlstand. Die Verkehrsinfrastruktur repräsentiert mit einem Bruttoanlagevermögen von … in die Erhaltung und Qualitätssicherung der Verkehrsinfrastruktur gegenüber. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde für diesen …

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Economic evaluation of a cruise ship dock marine

Polykalas, Spyros E.; Troumpetas, Spyros - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 2 (2013) 1, pp. 23-39

Cruise industry has increased in popularity all around the world, serving a heterogeneous clientele with well-differentiated expectations and preferences mainly in Asian, European and North American Markets. Greece as one of the most attractive tourism destinations is ranked highly among the...

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Foreign direct investment and monetary union in ECOWAS sub-region : lessons from abroad

Usman, Abdullateef; Ibrahim, Waheed - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 4, pp. 185-192

The paper examines the proposed Economic and Monetary Union for ECOWAS sub-region and provide a comprehensive evidence based on European Union experience of what ECOWAS common currency stand to gain in terms of both Intra and Inter flow of FDI. Evidence from the reviewed literature revealed...

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Cycles inside cycles : Spanish regional aggregation

Gadea, Maria Dolores; Gómez-Loscos, Ana; Montañés, … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 4, pp. 423-456

This paper sets out a comprehensive framework to identify regional business cycles within Spain and analyses their stylised features and the degree of synchronisation both within them and between them and the Spanish economy. We show that the regional cycles are quite heterogeneous although they...

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Ein Instrument zur Messung der Preisentwicklung auf dem Wohnungsmarkt : das Beispiel Berlin

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 16, pp. 3-10

Untersuchungen über die Preise auf dem Markt für Wohnimmobilien geben in aller Regel Aufschluss über die Preise für Wohnungen in einer bestimmten Lage oder mit einer bestimmten Beschaffenheit. Das DIW Berlin hat ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem die Preise für verschiedenartige Wohnungen zu...

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Regional economic integration and transportation network improvement : a case of great mekong subregion

Vu, Trung-dien; Kobayashi, Kiyoshi; Trinh, Bui - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 3, pp. 119-135

The paper introduces a multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) for GMS economies. It deals with the effects of infrastructure transportation investment in commodities transportation cost of interregional trade and output production among countries in the GMS. Prior to develop the...

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Time series models for growth of urban population in SAARC countries

Khan, Md. Atikur Rahman; Rahman, Md. Mostafizur - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 109-119

The purpose of our present study is to strike out suitable models to explain the growth pattern and to forecast for urban population in SAARC countries. Using the data from UNPD for the years 1950 to 2000 in five years interval, we fitted both exponential and ARMA models. We found the...

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Un estudio no paramétrico de eficiencia para la minería de Zacatecas, México

Benita Maldonado, Francisco J.; Gaytán Alfaro, Edgar D.; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 54-75

The aim of the paper is to use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) for mining in Zacatecas and provide efficiency indicators in the years 1998, 2003, and 2008. We compare the performance of the state of Zacatecas with other mining states in Mexico. Then the empirical analysis extends to specific...

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Mind the remoteness! : income disparities across Japanese prefectures

López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Nakamura, Daisuke - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 393-417

In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...

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