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Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …
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The share of immobile persons, i.e. persons not leaving their homes on a given reporting day, is both a central result and a prime quality indicator of a travel diary survey. The wide range of values for the share of immobiles reported in travel diary and time budget survey literature has...
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One of the best-established empirical results in international economics is that bilateral trade decreases with … the estimates. Our most interesting finding is that the estimated negative impact of distance on trade rose around the …
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The estimation of cartel overcharges lie at the heart of antitrust policy on cartel proscution as it constitutes a basic element in the determination of fines. Connor and Lande (2008) conducted a survey of cartels and found a mean overcharge estimates in the range of 31% to 49%. By examining...
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Aufbaus der öffentlichen Infrastruktur sowie zur Finanzierung gewerblicher Investitionsfördermaßnahmen und sonstiger …
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investment benchmarks for illiquid assets such as infrastructure.<P>Les investisseurs institutionnels et le financement des …
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Australian and Canadian pension funds have been pioneers in infrastructure investing since the early 1990s. They also … have the highest asset allocation to infrastructure around the globe today. This paper compares and contrasts the … experience of institutional investors in the two countries looking at factors such as infrastructure policies, the pension system …
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The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a ‘full’ Generalized Least...
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The last two decades have witnessed a great deal of effort devoted to measuring the private output elasticity of public capital, but remarkably little consensus has emerged. This paper estimates the meta-output elasticity of public capital and explains the heterogeneity of primary estimates...
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The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several metaanalytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a `full' Generalized Least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090875