Preventing competition because of 'solidarity': Rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2853-2865

  Bel, Germá ^a   Fageda, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM; AIRPORT; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INVESTMENT; POLICY MAKING; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70350025432     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701522846     Document Type: Article

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