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Germà Bel
Researcher at University of Barcelona
Publications - 211
Citations - 8106
Germà Bel is an academic researcher from University of Barcelona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government & Economies of scale. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 202 publications receiving 7164 citations. Previous affiliations of Germà Bel include Cornell University & Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
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The Environmental Effects of Changing Speed Limits: A Quantile Regression Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate whether two speed management policies have been successful in promoting cleaner air, not only in terms of mean pollutant levels but also during high and low pollution episodes.
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When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain's transport infrastructure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the institutional and regulatory factors that have permitted the massive expansion of the country's transport infrastructure over the last decade and suggest reforms in different regulatory areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain's infrastructure policy.
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Governance and regulation of urban bus transportation: Using partial privatization to achieve the better of two worlds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the challenges and opportunities posed by mixed delivery of public services in the urban bus market in Barcelona and propose a reform implemented in Barcelona that is effective in disciplining private operators and increasing the regulators bargaining power over both public and private firms.
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Privatization, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation : Privatization, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: New developments in local public service delivery
Germà Bel,Raymond Gradus +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent advances in the empirical analysis of the privatisation and inter-municipal cooperation of local public services and discuss the potential of these studies.
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Delusions of success: Costs and demand of high-speed rail in Italy and Spain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse two significant cases of delusions of success, namely the Italian and Spanish HSR programs, and they show that the core of the problem does not lie in the wrong estimations, but in deliberate choices of overinvestment, overdesign and overquality.