Measuring the welfare effects of infrastructure: A simple spatial equilibrium evaluation of Dutch railway proposals

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-28

  Knaap, Thijs ^a   Oosterhaven, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computable General Equilibrium; Interregional input output data; New Economic Geography; Transport infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952315395     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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