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Implementation of EU legislation on rail liberalisation in Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands
Deville, Xavier; Verduyn, Fabienne - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2012
This study provides a detailed and easy-to read overview of the railway liberalisation in Belgium and the three … neighbouring countries. The European Union's liberalisation Directives are often complex and are implemented in very specific ways … enterprises with the separation of infrastructure from operations. The study takes a look at the impact of the European rail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272824
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Estimating Travellers’ Preferences for Competition in Commercial Passenger Rail Transport
Paha, Johannes; Rompf, Dirk; Warnecke, Christiane - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
The current level of competition in European commercial passenger rail markets is low and empirical data on customer … passenger rail by exploring the determinants of customers’ choice behaviour on two cross-border routes, Cologne-Brussels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293547
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Quasi-integration in less-than-truckload trucking
Fernández, Alberto; Arruñada, Benito; González, Manuel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This work studies the organization of less-than-truckload trucking from a contractual point of view. We show that the huge number of owner-operators working in the industry hides a much less fragmented reality. Most of those owner-operators are “quasi-integrated” in higher organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772267
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Determinants of organizational form: Transaction costs and institutions in the European trucking industry
Arruñada, Benito; González, Manuel; Fernández, Alberto - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
We explain why European trucking carriers are much smaller and rely more heavily on owner-operators (as opposed to employee drivers) than their US counterparts. Our analysis begins by ruling out differences in technology as the source of those disparities and confirms that standard hypotheses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572570
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Die neue Kfz-Steuer: Mehr Klimaschutz oder Steuersenkungsprogramm?
Dudenhöffer, Ferdinand; Belke, Ansgar; Hermann, Winfried; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 06, pp. 03-15
Fahrzeuge sowie "die im europäischen Vergleich Niedrigstbesteuerung von Klimakiller-Pkw". Dadurch verzichte Deutschland auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048053
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Konsumgutscheine, Steuer- und Zinssenkungen, Hilfspaket für die Automobilbranche: Sind das geeignete Mittel gegen die Rezession?
Fahrenschon, Georg; Fuest, Clemens; Brügelmann, Ralph; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 01, pp. 03-15
Mit der Entscheidung für ein Konjunkturprogramm möchte die Bundesregierung die gegenwärtige Rezession bekämpfen. Georg Fahrenschon, Bayerischer Staatsminister der Finanzen, hält weitere Schritte zur Stabilisierung der Wirtschaft und zur Beschäftigungssicherung für dringend erforderlich,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055967
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Die Kraftfahrzeugsteuer als Instrument der Klimaschutzpolitik
Ketterer, Janina; Wackerbauer, Johann - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 04, pp. 12-16
Die zur Jahresmitte 2009 in Kraft tretende Reform der Kraftfahrzeugsteuer, mit der die Bundesregierung klimaschutzpolitische Zielsetzungen verfolgt, sieht ei-ne kombinierte CO2- und hubraumbezogene Besteuerung für Neufahrzeuge vor. Danach soll der über 120 g/km hinausgehende CO2-Ausstoß mit 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056227
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EXCLUSIVE SAFEGUARDS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: Subcontracting Agreements in Eastern Europe’s Car Component Industry
Møllgaard, H. Peter; Lorentzen, Jochen - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2002
We study the rationale for the use of exclusivity to protect transfer of technology in <p> subcontracting agreements. The legal possibility arises through the EU Notice on <p> Subcontracting. Empirically, the link between exclusive agreements and technology transfer <p> among firms in the automotive...</p></p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419381
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548
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Germany's Fiscal Policy Stance
Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
This paper analyzes Germany’s fiscal policy position. Half of GDP passes through the hands of government, a high debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700610