The main focus areas of the book are Concepts and Models for Private Participation in Infrastructure, Private Participation in Infrastructure in China, Laws and Regulations for Private Participation in Infrastructure in China, Financing Private Infrastructure Projects in China, Road Issues and...

Ecosystem services are the functions performed by ecosystems that lead to desirable environmental outcomes, such as air and water purification, drought and flood mitigation, and climate stabilisation. Markets rarely exist for them. This study examines how newly defined property rights have been...

This short paper demonstrates two important results related to the estimation of competing-risk models under the proportional-hazards assumption with grouped duration data. First I show that the model with non-parametric baseline hazards is unidentifiable with only grouped duration data....

This research draws on an extensive database at the plant level to analyze capacity changes in the in the integrated sector of the U.S. steel industry over the period 1974-1991. Reduced form models are developed using panel data from this period with the objective of isolating the market forces...

In this paper I investigate from a strict efficiency perspective whether or not New York City’s suburbs should be helping the city in its economic development efforts. By analyzing metropolitan New York City, I am able to take advantage of the area’s spatial size and the ready...

In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U.S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify factors that influence the change in business activity...

Es elevada la dependencia entre la industria maquiladora de exportación de México y el desempeño de la economía de Estados Unidos; sin embargo, son relativamente escasas las investigaciones que dan cuenta del comportamiento de otras industrias y su relación con el mercado del país...

En este trabajo se hace uso del concepto de grafo, en general, y de grafo de influencia (valuado) asociado a un modelo lineal (modelo de Leontief), en particular, y se aplica al estudio de los cambios habidos en la estructura productiva española, vistos a través de las tablas input-output de...

Analysis of road fereight transport is hindered by the lack of diecdirect observartions of the handling factor. The handling factor is the frequency of lifts of the tonnes in the supply chain from origin to destination. It is also the number of times that the same tonnes are reported to the...