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O agronegócio e os desafios do financiamento da infraestrutura de transportes no Brasil
Castro, César Nunes de - 2015
Brazilian agriculture has undergone a process of modernization that occurred gradually since the 1950s to the present … yield. However, Brazilian agriculture still faces many obstacles to its further development, one of which is posed by the … relationship between agribusiness and logistics infrastructure necessary to allow Brazilian agriculture continued development …
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The long shadow of history : roman legacy and economic development - evidence from the German limes
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This paper contributes to the understanding of the long-run consequences of Roman rule on economic development. In ancient times, the area of contemporary Germany was divided into a Roman and non-Roman part. The study uses this division to test whether the formerly Roman part of Germany show a...
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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project : the port of Gioia Tauro
Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - 2013 - This version: 28 June 2013
This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...
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Capital cities and road network integration : evidence from the U.S.
Loumeau, Nicole - 2021
This paper quantifies the causal effect of capital status on road network integration of U.S.micro/metropolitan statistical areas. Road network integration is defined using a class of measurements that evaluate how well a location is connected to all other locations through the National Highway...
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Development of the model to examine the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence
Mačiulytė-Šniukienė, Alma; Butkus, Mindaugas; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 3, pp. 731-753
Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy (CP) priorities - is heavily funded....
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TEN-T corridors : stairway to heaven or highway to hell?
Goldmann, Kathrin; Wessel, Jan - 2019
The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which consist of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect...
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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure : accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge
De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019
Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....
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Roads and jobs in Ethiopia
Fiorini, Matteo; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2019
We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...
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Regional financial system and the financial structure of small firms
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Chaudhuri, Swayan - 2009
The capital structure of firms is known to be different not only due to firm characteristics but also to the sources of capital. Therefore, there is a need to understand the supply side effects on a firmś capital structure. A small firmś choice of financing sources may be limited by the...
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TENT-T Priority Projects: Where do we Stand?
Martellato, Dino - In: European Research Studies Journal XIV (2011) 3, pp. 51-66
infrastructure capital, the paper focuses the existing obstacles to a full implementation of TEN-T and, in particular, the funding …
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