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Enabling and Integrative Infrastructure Policy: The Role of Inverse Infrastructures in Local Infrastructure Provision with Special Reference to Finnish Water Cooperatives
Heino, Ossi; Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …
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Öffentliche Infrastruktur und kommunale Finanzen
Fester, Thomas; Seitz, Helmut - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 12 (2005) 02, pp. 19-32
In den letzten Jahren konnte ein massiver Einbruch bei den kommunalen Investitionen in Ostdeutschland beobachtet werden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass dieser Einbruch unabhängig von der Wirtschaftskraft der Kommunen stattfand und in engem Zusammenhang mit dem Rückgang der...
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Öffentliche Infrastruktur und kommunale Finanzen : Gutachten im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen und des Bundesamtes für Bauwesen und Raumordnung...
Thum, Marcel; Fester, Thomas; Kappler, Andreas; Seitz, … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
" und der "Flypaper" Effekt, haben dazu beigetragen, die von der klassischen Theorie abweichenden empirischen Befunde …
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Semi-Parametric Interpolations of Residential Location Values: Using Housing Price Data to Generate Balanced Panels
Coughlin, Cletus C.; Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Clapp, John M. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
estimation to examine how the location value estimates are affected by airport infrastructure investments. …
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Public financial support to investments in rural areas: The case of the region of Thessaly in Greece
Karafolas, Simeon - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 6 (2013) 2, pp. 81-101
Greek governments have supported investments to rural areas financially either by covering part of the investment and/or offering advantages with respect to interest rate loans or tax advantages. This support had been tendered either by nationally financed programs, called Development Laws, or...
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Are Local Economic Development Incentives Promoting Job Growth? An Empirical Case Study
Fuerst, Franz; Mollenkopf, John - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2008
At a time when cities are competing with one another to attract or retain jobs within a globalizing economy, city governments are providing an array of financial incentives to stimulate job growth and retain existing jobs, particularly in high cost locations. This paper provides the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009972
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Are Local Economic Development Incentives Promoting Job Growth? An Empirical Case Study
Fuerst, Franz; Mollenkopf, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
At a time when cities are competing with one another to attract or retain jobs within a globalizing economy, city governments are providing an array of financial incentives to stimulate job growth and retain existing jobs, particularly in high cost locations. This paper provides the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619354
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Choosing a place to live and a workplace
Ennis, Huberto M.; Pinto, Santiago M.; Porto, Alberto - In: Económica LII (2006) 1-2, pp. 15-51
, and local infrastructure. We also provide a short survey of the related economic literature that discusses other important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258439
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Institutional Investors and Infrastructure Financing
Croce, Raffaele Della; Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
investment benchmarks for illiquid assets such as infrastructure.<P>Les investisseurs institutionnels et le financement des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276659
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Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure: A Comparison Between Australia and Canada
Inderst, Georg; Croce, Raffaele Della - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
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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