Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,669
Cover Image
Econometric analysis of productivity with measurement error : empirical application to the US Railroad industry
Coublucq, Daniel - 2013
This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value-added production framework to circumvent the problem of measurement error in one input. I find evidence showing that aggregate productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755723
Cover Image
Substantiation of Transportation Infrastructure – Patterns of Governance and Public Finance in Development : An Analytical Comparison of the United States and China
Hou, Yilin - 2011
This paper explores patterns of governance and public finance in development through dissecting the substantiation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131253
Cover Image
Determinants of Profitability of US Class I Freight Railroads
Nag, Bodhibrata - 2013
US Class I railroads have been operating profitably and carrying substantial market share of traffic, in spite of the inherent disadvantages of rail transport as well as highly developed road, water and air transport infrastructure. This paper examines the key initiatives that railroads have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152624
Cover Image
Wettbewerb statt Privatisierung: Auslandserfahrung für die deutsche Entwicklung
Loheide, Johannes - In: Die Modernisierung der Städte : Verwaltung und Politik …, (pp. 93-128). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001501876
Cover Image
Innovation Ltd. : boundary work in deliberative governance in land use planning
Metze, Tamara - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008771889
Cover Image
Housing Vouchers, Benefits and Allowances (VBAs): Comparing Rental Tools in the US, England and the Netherlands
Agiro, Abiy; Matusitz, Jonathan - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 11 (2011) 1, pp. 71-88
This paper compares rental housing tools in the US, Britain and the Netherlands in order to determine the best strategy … for enhancing rental housing accessibility. In doing so, the authors employ a 'tools approach' of governance paradigm …, based on the work of Salamon's The Tools of Governance (2002). Rental housing tools are called housing vouchers in the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221820
Cover Image
Bureaucratic minimal squawk behavior : theory and evidence from regulatory agencies
Leaver, Clare - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 3, pp. 572-607
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863179
Cover Image
Will the US and EU telecommunications policies converge? : a survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2014
Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366153
Cover Image
Emissions trading, electricity restructuring, and investment in pollution abatement
Fowlie, Meredith - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 837-869
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749222
Cover Image
Funding Urban Mass Transit in the United States
Gordon, Michael - 2013
As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091566