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Corruption and firm behavior: Evidence from African ports
Sequeira, Sandra; Djankov, Simeon - In: Journal of International Economics 94 (2014) 2, pp. 277-294
payments at ports matched to firm-level data, we observe how firms adapt to different types of corruption by adjusting their …
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TRANSPORTATION ISSUES FOR DECIDING WHEN TO DIPLOID A NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER
SINGER, MARCOS; DONOSO, PATRICIO - In: Abante 3 (2000) 2, pp. 227-247
This work analyses the problem of defining when to diploid a new distribution center. The decision model considers the usual logistic cost drivers such as shipping, inventory, infrastructure and administration, focusing in the first one. The shipping cost driver is determined by the client...
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An assessment of the first round impact of innovation industries on Europe's regional economies
Otoiu, Adrian; Bere, Ramona; Silvestru, Cătălin - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 44, pp. 289-301
This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method used is that of panel data modelling, based on data from regions from European countries, including countries from Central and Eastern Europe, for which exploratory analysis was...
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Smile-and-go : regional performance through global value chains in Europe
Capello, Roberta; Dellisanti, Roberto - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 103 (2024) 2, pp. 1-10
By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...
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Structural funds and regional economic growth : the Greek experience
Kechagia, Adamantia; Kyriazi, Foteini - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 13 (2021) 4, pp. 501-532
The impact of structural funds of the European Union (EU) on regional economic growth is a matter of both political and economic importance. The large and regular payments made across the EU to countries and regions within them were and are meant to promote various aspects of growth and...
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On the Performance of the U.S. Transportation System: Caution Ahead
Winston, Clifford - In: Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013) 3, pp. 773-824
Transportation is a vital sector of the U.S. economy based on consumers', firms', and government's enormous … transportation system and consider how it could be improved by analyzing whether the United States has the optimal mix of public and … private provision. The empirical evidence indicates that our hugely important transportation system has been compromised by …
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Do fiscal transfers foster regional economic growth?
Mose, Naftaly - In: Financial internet quarterly 17 (2021) 1, pp. 19-27
Fiscal transfer development across the world today has been in part driven by assertions of a supposed ‘economic dividend’ linked with the devolved financial spending. There is, however, little empirical evidence to validate these assertions in Kenya. It is against this background that this...
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SERVICE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES AFFECTING THE SATISFACTION OF RAILWAY PASSENGERS OF SELECTIVE ROUTE IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF BANGLADESH
RAHAMAN, Khan Rubayet; RAHAMAN, Md. Arifur - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 4 (2009) 3(12), pp. 115-125
has also increased. Transportation have performed very crucial roles from very early accelerating the sharing of economic …. This study has aimed to focus on the railway transportation sector and to develop a model defining the relationship between …
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Regional economic convergence in Turkey : does the government really matter for?
Gömleksiz, Mustafa; Şahbaz, Ahmet; Mercan, Birol - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 3, pp. 1-16
Solow (1956) has made an essential contribution to the Neo-classical growth approach through the economic convergence hypothesis. It assumes that poorer countries’ or regions’ per capita incomes tend to grow at faster rates than the richer ones. Convergence could occur either among a group...
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Chapter 4. Regional Growth and Regional Decline
Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Temple, … - 2014
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
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