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The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Cloth Industries, 1100 - 1730: a study in conjoncture, transaction costs, and comparative advantage
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca. 1730) in the context of both international competition and economic conjoncture, in the...
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Estimating transport costs and trade barriers in China: Direct evidence from Chinese agricultural traders
Li, Zhigang; Yu, Xiaohua; Zeng, Yinchu; Holst, Rainer - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 4, pp. 1003-1010
Using a unique survey data on agricultural traders in China in 2004, this study provides direct evidence on the significance of inter-regional trade barriers and their key components. Our major findings are as follows. (1) The trade barriers within China are fairly small, accounting for about...
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Too Expensive to Meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication
Levinson, David; Odlyzko, Andrew - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007
Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. And such charging appears to be increasingly desirable, as traffic on roads continues to grow, and costs and public...
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Transportation Infrastructure and Diversification of the Nigerian Economy : Implications for the Developmental State
Nwokoye, Ebele - 2019
Transportation infrastructure is indispensable for the diversification of an economy. This paper investigates the empirical link between transportation infrastructure and diversification of the Nigerian economy. Descriptive demonstrations are adopted to provide a situational focus to the study,...
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The Worst of Both : The Rise of High-Cost, Low-Capacity Rail Transit
O'Toole, Randal - 2014
rail. Seattle is building a three-mile subway that costs nearly six times as much per mile as the average light-rail line …. Honolulu is building a 20-mile elevated rail line that costs well over twice as much as the average light rail. Yet those lines … willing to draw the line against such projects, then there is little reason to believe their claims about the benefits of …
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Reforming the Air Passenger Duty as an Environmental Tax
Truby, Jon M. - 2014
In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...
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It is time to re-think on environment, energy and economics (E3)
Yallwe, Hagos Alem; Buscemi, Antonino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper summarized some theories and facts related to Environment, Energy and Economics. This work paper provides some highlights about the theoretical issues and facts regarding to environmental pollutions and its effect on economy and the importance of relying on other source energy to...
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Research on an Optimization Model for Transportation Network Design
Dinu, Simona - 2011
A competitive transportation network must answer to the economic requirements. An important economic issue is the investment decision regarding transportation network improvement that involves the interaction of two parties with own objectives: the network planner and the network users. A...
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Measuring road congestion
Christidis, Panayotis; Rivas, Juan Nicolás Ibanez - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
-vehicle navigation systems. The approach is based on the analysis of a large number of real vehicle speeds that have been measured on …
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The maritime potential of ASEAN economies
Evers, Hans-Dieter; Karim, Azhari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Countries may utilize a long coastline in relation to their landmass as a resource to develop their maritime economy …. This paper argues that ASEAN countries differ in utilizing their maritime potential. As a basis for further comparative … the maritime potential of nations, the state of their maritime industries, and the degree to which the maritime potential …
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