The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics ofports for scientists, students and professionals. The text is divided into five self-contained parts: the first chapter defines the demand for port services using an econometric approach. The second part analyzes the provision of port services using the production, cost, investment and profit functions of various ports. The third part combines the two previous parts in order to propounda general equilibrium approach. The fourth part looks at regulation, efficiency and the existence of ports as natural monopolies. Finally, the fifth part uses Cost Benefit Analysis for an economic evaluation of the feasibility of building new ports or enlarging existing ones. INDICE: 1 Introduction.- Part I: Port Demand.- 2 Determinants of the Demand for Maritime Imports and Exports.- 3 A Demand Economic Theory of the Port.- 4 Port Demand: Theory and Applications.- Part II: Port Supply.- 5 Port Production Function: An Application.- 6 Multioutput Cost Functions in Port Production.- 7 The Strategic Positioning of Ports: The Use of Portfolio Analysis.- 8 Port Investment.- 9 Earnings Differentials of Port Dockworkers and Seafarers.- Part III: Port Economic Impact.- 10 Economic Impact Study: Application to Ports.- 11 Economic Impact Study: Ports and Hinterlands.- 12 Dynamising Economic Impact Studies.- Part IV: Regulation and Efficiency.- 13 A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of the Relative Efficiency of European Ports.- 14 Technical and Allocative Effeciency in Spanish Ports.- 15 Regulation and Over-Capitalization: An Application.- 16 Port Privatization: Their Impact on Port Efficiency.- Part V: Cost-Benefit Analysis.- 17 Port Valuation of Benefits and Costs.- 18 Economic Returns in a Construction Project for a New Container Terminal: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Approach. 19 Valuation of Port Externalities: The Ecological Footprint
- ISBN: 978-3-7908-2424-7
- Editorial: Physica-Verlag
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 340
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés