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Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city’s stock of roads causes about a 2% increase in its population and employment and a small decrease in its share of poor households over...

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MEASURING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SEMI- PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above mentioned issue and to propose an alternative...

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Competing Transport Networks

Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for a single fast transport connection that faces competition from a slower but better accessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals have to make complementary trips by slow mode. This fact...

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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

to capital markets or better public transportation will reduce the differences in labor market outcomes. …

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The Choice of Transport Mode: Evidence from Japanese Exports to East Asia

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper investigates Japanese trade by mode of transport, i.e., air transport versus maritime shipping. Some facts about Japanese machinery exports by mode of transport in the 1990s are examined first. Then it will be shown that products of the machinery sector where international...

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Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

In this paper, based on the recent advances in the new economic geography (e.g., Fujita, Krugman and Venables [12]), we analyze impacts of transport costs on the spatial patterns of economic agglomeration. We first identify prototypes from the existing models, and explain the mechanism of how...

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Noi forme de cooperare intre România si Federatia Rusa prin dezvoltarea unor schimburi comerciale maritime la Constanta si Rostov pe Don

Ragalie, Stefan; Macsim, Mihai; Sandu, Irina - In: Revista de Economie Industriala (Journal of Industrial … 5 (2007) 3, pp. 55-59

For the contemporary world, the economic relationship between the Russian Federation and the EU countries are more and more anchored in the reality of globalization. In this context, the authors take into consideration a diversification of the cooperation relationship between the Russian...

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Cresterea atractivitatii transporturilor publice urbane prin implementarea elementelor de management integrat

Fistung, Daniel - In: Revista de Economie Industriala (Journal of Industrial … 5 (2007) 3, pp. 91-94

Major efforts for promoting public transportation are obviously done all over the world, in the last years, as a major … solution for promoting sustainable transportation development. In this respect, many techniques are used, among those the … integrated management system for public transportation beeing more and more adopted. …

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The biobjective absolute center problem

Ramos, Rosa; Sicilia, Joaquín; Ramos, Teresa - In: TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 5 (1997) 2, pp. 187-199

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Does Competition for the Field Improve Cost Efficiency? Evidence from the London Bus Tendering Model

Amaral, Miguel; Saussier, Stéphane; Yvrande-Billon, Anne - Fachgebiet Wirtschafts- und Infrastukturpolitik (WIP), … - 2006

transportation contracts in London. Using an original database concerning 294 local transportation routes we find that a higher …

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