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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - 2004
Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477140
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Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Income Distributions in Poland and Russia
Berkowitz, Daniel; Jackson, John E. - 2005
.25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from …
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Center for International Relations
Centrum Stosunków Miedzynarodowych <Warszawa>
those foreign policy issues, which are of crucial importance to Poland, Europe and transatlantic relations in both the long …
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Forecasting urban highway travel for year 2005
Miaou, Shaw-Pin; Rathi, A.K.; Southworth, F.; Greene, D.L. - 2008
As part of a study aimed at estimating suburban highway needs for year 2005, models were developed for forecasting daily vehicle miles of travel (DVMT) for urban areas and its distribution by highway functional class, urban location, and urban area size. A regression model combining both time...
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The dynamics of iterated transportation simulations
Nagel, K.; Rickert, M.; Simon, P.M. - 2009
Transportation-related decisions of people often depend on what everybody else is doing. For example, decisions about mode choice, route choice, activity scheduling, etc., can depend on congestion, caused by the aggregated behavior of others. From a conceptual viewpoint, this consistency problem...
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Comparison between three different traffic micro-simulations and reality in Dallas
Nagel, K.; Pieck, M.; Simon, P.M.; Rickert, M. - 2009
It is certainly desirable that transportation forecasting models are correct in the sense that the traffic patterns they predict correspond to what would happen in reality under the circumstances assumed in the forecasting model. Unfortunately, it is notoriously difficult to transform the above...
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Juristische, ökonomische und regulatorische Aspekte der Liberalisierung der Eisenbahn in Österreich
Szanto, Krisztina - 2008
Diese Arbeit untersucht die Liberalisierung der Eisenbahn in Österreich. Theoretische Grundbegriffe wie natürliches Monopol, wohlfahrtsoptimaler Preis und Regulierungstechniken werden vorgestellt. Danach folgen allgemeine Informationen über Schienen- und Straßenverkehr wie Kostendeckung,...
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India's cement industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's cement sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and type of indices and econometric specifications used for...
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American Indian tribes and electric industry restructuring: Issues and opportunities
Howarth, D.; Busch, J.; Starrs, T. - 2009
The US electric utility industry is undergoing a period of fundamental change that has significant implications for Native American tribes. Although many details remain to be determined, the future electric power industry will be very different from that of the present. It is anticipated that...
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From monopoly to markets: Milestones along the road. Occasional paper {number_sign}25
Olson, W.P. - 2009
This report analyzes developments in the electric utility industry using the tools of transaction cost economics. During the last thirty years, the tools of economic analysis have been substantially expanded--notably, Oliver Williamson, building on the insights of Coase and others, has made...
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