Using weekly spot and future commodity prices in Chicago and New York, we construct expected transportation rates for grain between these two cities, expected inventory levels in New York, and realized errors in the expectations of such variables. We incorporate these exogenous commodity market...

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

In questa comunicazione si tratta dello stato dei porti negli Stati Uniti e della loro competitivita' a livello mondiale. La capacita' di sostenere lo sviluppo dell'economia degli Stati Uniti dipende anche dalla loro organica collocazione all'interno del sistema intermodale nazionale sul lato...

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

This paper is motivated by the US freight railroad industry, which is characterized by a major restructuring over the last 30 years. In particular, the number of active firms decreased from 26 in 1978 to seven in 2006 due to several takeover waves. The empirical focus concerns the estimation of...

In this paper we analyse a railroad cartel run by the Joint Executive Committee (JEC) in the United States in the nineteenth century. The JEC was a cartel whose members anticipated a periodic fall in demand due to competition from the Great Lakes. In a simplified situation we model the optimal...

In this paper we will describe the liner shipping industry in the Mediterranean and in Italy. The structure of the industry is representative of the oligopolistic structure that is taking shape on a worldwide level. In particular the main terminals in Italy have undergone a "colonization...

In questa comunicazione si tratta dello stato dei porti negli Stati Uniti e della loro competitivita' a livello mondiale. La capacita' di sostenere lo sviluppo dell'economia degli Stati Uniti dipende anche dalla loro organica collocazione all'interno del sistema intermodale nazionale sul lato...

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019126151300043X">'Transportation Research Part B: Methodological'</A>, 2013, 53, 31-44. We analyse the behaviour of market participants in a multi-modal commuter network where roads are not priced, but public transport has a usage fee, which is set while taking the...</a>

[Zielsetzung der Arbeit] Die in Kapitel 1 vorgestellten Sachverhalte bilden den Rahmen für die vorliegende Ausarbeitung. Die in Folge des Klimawandels stetig ansteigende globale Durchschnittstemperatur bedingt, dass ein entschlossenes Handeln unausweichlich wird, um die heutigen Lebensbedingung...