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The Eje Vial Del Cono Sur Highway Project in Uruguay
Barreix, Alberto; Jenkins, Glenn P.; Marchesini, Mario - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2003
The Eje Vial del Cono Sur is a project to develop a road in Uruguay from Colonia to Rio Branco on the northern border … Aires in Argentina and Sao Paulo in Brazil. The implementation of this project depends on the construction of a bridge to … Highway would be a toll road. The initial plan of the government of Uruguay is to award a concession to a domestic investor to …
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Buenos Aires - Colonia Bridge Project, Financial and Economic Appraisal
Kuo, Chun-Yan; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1998
, and the governments of Argentina and Uruguay in supportive roles. The main objectives of this paper are to assess the … project from the viewpoint of the concessionaire by the financial appraisal and the governments of Argentina and Uruguay …, a city in Uruguay. It is planned to involve a private concessionaire for design, construction, operation and maintenance …
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How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 149-153
In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports and disentangle the channels of these effects. In so doing, we use a unique dataset consisting of highly disaggregated transaction-level trade and transport cost data and, in order to account...
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Cost overruns and demand shortfalls – deception or selection?
Eliasson, Jonas; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A number of highly cited papers by Flyvbjerg and associates have shown that ex ante infrastructure appraisals tend to be overly optimistic. Ex post evaluations indicate a bias where investment costs are higher and benefits lower on average than predicted ex ante. These authors argue that the...
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The Impacts of Urban Public Transportation: Evidence from the Paris Region
Mayer, Thierry; Trevien, Corentin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Evaluating the impact of transport infrastructure meets a major challenge since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between 1970 and 2000 in the Paris metropolitan region, and in...
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Individual time preferences and social discounting in-environmental projects
Percoco, M.; Nijkamp, P. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2009
The choice of an appropriate social rate of discount is critical in the decision-making process on public investments. In this paper we review the literature on social discounting, and address in particular a recently growing field of related research, that is, individual time preferences. We...
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Tarification optimale et formes contractuelles dans un programme d'infrastructures en ppp
Bonnafous, Alain - In: Revue économique 62 (2011) 5, pp. 813-834
Over the past twenty years, the growth in the use of ppps for news infrastructures did not knock down the bases of public economics. This article examines, however, in which measure it is advisable to modify the use of the cost-benefit analysis by the public authorities in the case of ppps, in...
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The Land Transport Sector: Policy and Performance
Persson, Jan; Song, Daeho - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
This paper provides a broad overview of policy goals and instruments and commonly used performance and policy indicators related to land transport. Two policy aspects, infrastructure investment and externalities, are explored in more depth. A review of planning and decision making in individual...
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Evaluación económica del proyecto Sistema Estratégico de Transporte Público de Pasajeros para la Ciudad de Pasto""
Tiuso, César Alberto Arcos; Blasi, Luis David Pulido; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2011
Este trabajo presenta la evaluación financiera y económica del "Sistema Estratégico de Transporte Público de Pasajeros para la Ciudad de Pasto - SETP". Se desarrollo una metodología para la conceptualización y estimación de los beneficios y costos. Como resultado se destaca que el...
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CAPITAL APPRAISAL HANDBOOK FOR PROVINCIAL ROADS: LIMPOPO PROVINCE
Jenkins, Glenn Paul; Klevchuk, Andrey - Economics Department, Queen's University
It has been a challenge for the Limpopo Provincial Government to tackle the eradication of poverty and the acceleration of the pace of economic growth in the province. It is of importance for the Government to provide the basic infrastructure facilities such as roads, water, electricity, and...
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