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Regional analysis of domestic integration in Egypt
Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; Lahr, Michael L.; Elshahawany, Dina - 2015
infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate the analytical capabilities of the model … and of their links to the broader world economy are considered in stylized simulations. The results provide quantitative … transportation infrastructure projects in a spatial context. In the case of Egypt, there seems to be an important trade-off between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484086
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Judiciary efficiency and trade in tasks
Accetturo, Antonio; Linarello, Andrea; Petrella, Andrea - 2014 - First Version: November, 2014
In this paper, we study how contract enforcement at the local level affects a firm's ability to supply customised intermediate inputs to foreign firms. Using Italian firm-level data, we show that firms located in courts with higher judicial trial length in civil disputes, which is our measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481849
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Empirical productivity distributions and international trade
Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Nigai, Sergey - 2021 - This draft: March 2021
We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions against the backdrop of multi-sector versions of the models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341605
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Is there a continental bias in trade?
Gil-Pareja, Salvador; Llorca-Vivero, Rafael; Martínez … - 2010
potential existence of a continental bias in world trade flows on a sample of 182 countries over the period 1990-2006. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575604
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Revisit' the silk road : railway speed-up project export
Xu, Hangtian - 2014
China's main railway line linking east and west was speeded-up in Oct. 21, 2000, which improves freight efficiency between eastern China and Xinjiang (the hub of China and Central Asia). This paper tests the impact of exogenous domestic accessibility variation on export. By employing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011505780
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The barriers and ways for development of Siberia's regions with limited transport accessibility
Bezrukov, Leonid A. - 2012
transporting cargo and passengers to the leading centers and sea ports of Russia and the world at large (and, accordingly, vice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520860
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Regional trade and logistics infrastructure : a spatial approach
Alamá, Luisa; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Suárez, Celestino; … - 2011
proxy for logistics infrastructure demand in Spain. Then, we obtain data for trade flows between provinces (NUTS3) in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525196
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
empirically). We analyse several measures of urban infrastructure and look at different world regions, taking a special focus on … urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … to significant deficiencies in terms of urban infrastructure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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A structural ranking of economic complexity
Schetter, Ulrich - 2021 - This Version: November 2019
We propose a structural alternative to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI, Hidalgo and Hausmann 2009; Hausmann et al. 2011) that ranks countries by their complexity. This ranking is tied to comparative advantages. Hence, it reveals information different from GDP per capita on the deep underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342030
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ICT and transport infrastructure development
Na, Kyoung-Youn; Yun, Chang-Ho - 2016
This paper estimates the non-linear impact of ICT network on motorway contribution to total factor productivity. Using dynamic panel data of OECD member countries, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass of broadband penetration rate which has the property that if this threshold level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603834