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Impact of high-speed rail on regional economic disparity in China
Zhenhua Chen,Kingsley E. Haynes +1 more
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In this article, the authors investigated the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on regional economic disparity and found that HSR has promoted regional economic convergence in China, and the linkages between regional economic growth and HSR were measured empirically from a quantitative and qualitative perspective using an endogenous growth modelling framework with a panel data covering the period 2000-2014.About:
This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2017-12-01. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Theil index.read more
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Impacts of high-speed rail on airlines, airports and regional economies: A survey of recent research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed studies on the impacts of air-HSR competition on airlines, focusing on the overall effects of parallel HSR services on passengers' mode choice as well as on airlines' flight frequency, traffic volume, fares, service quality and market power.
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Does growth follow the rail? The potential impact of high-speed rail on the economic geography of China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of HSR on the economic geography of China and found that HSR has improved the accessibility of Chinese cities by 12.11% at the national level from 2009 to 2013.
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The influence of high-speed rail on ice–snow tourism in northeastern China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated changes in accessibility between urban areas and ice-snow tourist destinations after implementation of high-speed rail in northeastern China, and data on transportation networks, destinations, and economic factors were used to compute weighted mean travel times and daily accessibility, and a tourism-economy linkage model was utilized.
Dissertation
Sensibilité prospective des entreprises à l’amélioration de l’accessibilité ferroviaire : le cas de la ligne à grande vitesse Bretagne – Pays de la Loire
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an eclairage prospectif sur l'integration eventuelle of la LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire par les entreprises du Grand Ouest.
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Economic Growth and Income Inequality
TL;DR: The process of industrialization engenders increasing income inequality as the labor force shifts from low-income agriculture to the high income sectors as mentioned in this paper, and on more advanced levels of development inequality starts decreasing and industrialized countries are again characterized by low inequality due to the smaller weight of agriculture in production and income generation.
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Economics of agglomeration
TL;DR: In this article, the main reasons for the formation of economic clusters involving firms and/or households are analyzed: (i) externalities under perfect competition; (ii) increasing returns under monopolistic competition; and (iii) spatial competition under strategic interaction.
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