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Transport investment and the promotion of economic growth
David Banister,Yossi Berechman +1 more
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In this article, the authors have developed a new approach based on defining the set of necessary conditions for economic development to take place -in addition to the economic conditions, there are the investment conditions and the political and institutional conditions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2001-09-01. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project appraisal & Investment (macroeconomics).read more
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Highway investment in deindustrialization: A territorial analysis of office property transactions in Hong Kong, 2002–2013
Jin Murakami,Yiming He +1 more
TL;DR: The associations of highway proximity and traffic with office prices appear to exhibit mixed results across Hong Kong's three territorial divisions, of particular importance for progressive policymakers to deploy the strategic applications of underground bypasses, greenway creation, interchange improvement, congestion charges, and smart technology to manage mobility and alleviate disamenity.
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Super-Proximity and Spatial Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the notion of super-proximity to highlight the force field of physical and virtual infrastructures at various geographical scale and time levels, and sketch the spatial-economic implications of this universal megatrend towards zero distance-frictions.
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Determinants of high-tech entrepreneurship in Europe
Van Roy Vincent,Nepelski Daniel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the levels and determinants of high-tech entrepreneurship across European countries were analyzed using country-level data on high-and low-tech total early-stage entrepreneurial activity provided by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
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National infrastructure, small towns and sustainable mobility – experiences from policy and strategy in two Swedish municipalities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the implications of improved access to national rail and road infrastructure for urban planning and land use in two small Swedish towns, where the promotion of sustainable mobility is discussed.
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Does Transport Infrastructure Inequality Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected a panel of empirical data from 1982 to 2015 from China to calculate the Gini coefficient and conduct the Granger causality test, which showed that TI inequality is not always conducive to economic growth.
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Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a fully specified model of long-run growth in which knowledge is assumed to be an input in production that has increasing marginal productivity, which is essentially a competitive equilibrium model with endogenous technological change.
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
TL;DR: This paper developed a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized core and an agricultural periphery, in which manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing.
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Systems Competition and Network Effects
Michael L. Katz,Carl Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the dynamics of consumer adoption decisions in the presence of network effects, competition between incompatible systems, and how suppliers choose which components are compatible and which are not.
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Urban spatial structure.
TL;DR: Anas et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the role that urban size and structure play in people's lives and how to understand the organization of cities, which yields insights about economy-wide growth processes and sheds light on economic concepts.
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Urban Spatial Structure
TL;DR: In this article, the interplay between agglomerative and dispersive forces generates spatial structures that are complex and prone to multiple equilibria and dynamic path-dependence.