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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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Petrol fi̇yatlari, gsyi̇h ve dövi̇z kuru deği̇şi̇mi̇ni̇n ulaştirma sektörüne etki̇leri̇: bi̇st ulaştirma endeksi̇ üzeri̇ne bi̇r uygulama
TL;DR: Ulaştırma ve Lojistik faaliyetleri ülkelerin ekonomik kalkınmasınd, istihdam yaratmada ve rekabetçiliğin arttırılmasında büyük öneme sahiptir as mentioned in this paper .
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House prices and accessibility: Evidence from a natural experiment in transport infrastructure
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the impact of accessibility on house prices, based on a natural experiment in the Netherlands: the Westerscheldetunnel, and found that the elasticity between house prices and accessibility is equal to 0.8.
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How strong is the case for the fiscal exceptionalism of the telecommunications sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the validity in general of both taxes and subsidies in telecommunications and conclude that no general case for either form of special treatment has been proven and that the justification can run from equity or industrial policy goals to the avoidance of market failure.
Análisis de la aglomeración de actividades comerciales debido a una infraestructura de transporte público: caso MetroSur.
TL;DR: A traves de un Sistema de Informacion Geografica, estimamos for cada una de las nuevas estaciones the variación de la densidad de actividades comerciales durante un periodo de diez anos, desde la concepcion de la linea hasta cuatro anos despues de que the linea comenzara a operar as discussed by the authors.
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Urban Ferry Systems: Planning, Development and Use of Contemporary Water-Based Transit in Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated key issues for planning this form of transport and provided a better understanding of the operation of water transport services, their wider impact and the implications for their inclusion in future city planning.
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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.