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Wirkung kommunaler Investitionen in die Tourismusinfrastruktur am Beispiel Sachsens
Kauffmann, Albrecht - In: Review of Regional Research 31 (2011) 1, pp. 57-73
The mass of investments into infrastructure for tourism in the so-called “New States” (Neue Länder) of the Federal … effects of local public investment into infrastructure for tourism supported by investment grants on the local employment in …
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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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Regional allocation of public infrastructure investment: The case of Greece
Lambrinidis, Matthew; Psycharis, Yannis; Rovolis, Antonis - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1231-1244
Lambrinidis M., Psycharis Y. and Rovolis A. (2005) Regional allocation of public infrastructure investment: the case of … infrastructure investment and applies it to Greece for 1982-94 using panel methods of estimation. The principal conclusions are that … regional allocations of infrastructure investment (1) were negatively associated with regional product per capita as well as …
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Schwache Unternehmensinvestitionen in Deutschland? Diagnose und Therapie
Bardt, Hubertus; Grömling, Michael; Hüther, Michael - Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln - 2015
gestrichen werden. 3. Grundlagen für künftiges Wachstum schaffen. Dazu muss beständig und effektiv in die Infrastruktur … investiert werden - nicht im Rahmen von Hauruck-Programmen. Die Mittel für eine ordentliche Infrastruktur sind da - die Politik …
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Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil
Fliehr, Olivia - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
status quo of the domestic soybean market and infrastructure for transportation and storage of bulk materials. Structure and … underdeveloped infrastructure. The nationwide deficient network of transportation and storage infrastructure as well as of … improve the national infrastructure, particularly in the ports in northern Brazil, could lead to large improvements in the …
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Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Expectations for Sustainability Analyses
Alho, Juha - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
Optimal forecasts are, under a squared error loss, conditional expectations of the unknown future values of interest. When stochastic demographic models are used in macroeconomic analyses, it becomes important to be able to handle updated forecasts. That is, when population development turns out...
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Environmental Abatement and the Macroeconomy in the Presence of Ecological Thresholds
Heijdra, Ben; Heijnen, Pim - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 55 (2013) 1, pp. 47-70
We study the environmental and economic effects of public abatement in the presence of multiple stable steady-state ecological equilibria featuring reversible hysteresis. The isocline for the stock of pollution possesses two stable branches. Assuming that the ecology is initially located on the...
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Time consuming resource extraction in an overlapping generations economy with capital
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - In: Journal of Economics 110 (2013) 3, pp. 203-224
For worldwide fisheries production, two major trends emerge for the next decades: a significantly larger role for aquaculture and reduced output due to climate change impacts. While the former leads to an increase in cost, the latter affects natural regeneration. To address both impacts, we...
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The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates
Sánchez-Romero, Miguel - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1347-1377
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and “convergence models” differ in their assessment of the extent to which demography influences economic growth. Here, I show that CGE models produce results similar to those of convergence models when more detailed demographic information is...
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Capital accumulation and the sources of demographic change
Mierau, Jochen; Turnovsky, Stephen - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 3, pp. 857-894
We develop a neoclassical growth model having a realistic demographic structure. We identify the critical channel of impact to be the intertemporal consumption allocation decision through the “generational turnover term”. Expressing the aggregate dynamics as a generalization of the...
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