Avec une fonction de production a facteurs complementaires, une entreprise a l'equilibre stationnaire peut adopter une nouvelle technologie de production s'il est profitable de supporter des couts d'ajustement. On montre qu'a court terme les couts d'ajustement peuvent conduire l'entreprise a...

Signal-based intersection management will change when vehicles with intelligent capability are available in the future. Intelligent agents embedded in vehicle software will be responsible for vehicle control and route guidance. Intersection management can be achieved through the collaboration of...

This paper uses a quasi-experimental study of a major bridge construction in Bangladesh to understand the effects of a large reduction in trade costs on the pattern of structural change and agricultural productivity. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model with a core and two hinterlands...

From the point of view of economic history and microeconomic theory, we carried out an enquiry on the state of the railway heritage in the province of Huelva and surveyed the chances of their preservation and/or reuse with cultural purposes, i.e. as tourist attractions. This heritage is the...

In this general equilibrium framework, the transportation sector is modeled as a distinct sector with increasing returns. A more advanced technology has a higher fixed cost but a lower marginal cost of production. Even with both manufacturing firms and transportation firms engaged in...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

Offshore natural-gas discoveries have released Israel from complete reliance on imported primary fuels and are allowing for a cleaner energy mix. Furthermore, additional production will soon come on stream, and there is a reasonable chance of new commercially viable gas finds, and possibly of...

Actuellement, les "grands projets de développement", dont le coût d'investissement est supérieur à 83 millions d'euros, font l'objet d'une analyse socio-économique ex-post à travers les "Bilans LOTI". En revanche, aucune obligation légale ne fait mention d'une analyse socio-économique...

Dans les grandes agglomérations, l'organisation de l'offre de transport collectif répond à deux logiques principales, celle de la massification des flux, qui conduit à la mise en place de transport en commun en site propre de type ferré (métro, tramway), et celle de la diffusion dont...

Une grande partie des citadins des villes de l'Afrique subsaharienne subit au quotidien des difficultés pour satisfaire les besoins de mobilité, notamment pour des activités loin du domicile. L'objectif de cette communication est d'analyser les conditions de déplacements des citadins dans...