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Essays on Port Economics

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Editors:
  1. Pablo Coto-Millán

    1. Fac. Ciencias Economicas y, Empresariales, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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  2. Miguel Angel Pesquera

    1. Facultad Ciencias Económicas y, Empresariales, Universidad Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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  3. Juan Castanedo

    1. Facultad Ciencias Económicas y, Empresariales, Universidad Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Demand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. Introduction to Essays on Port Economics

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo
      Pages 1-2

    3. Port Marketing Strategies and the Challenges of Maritime Globalization

      • Fernando González Laxe
      Pages 5-18

    4. Contextual Port Development: A Theoretical Approach

      • Ricardo J. Sánchez, Gordon Wilmsmeier
      Pages 19-44

    5. The Conditioned Demands of “General Merchandise”, “Dry Bulk” and “Liquid Bulk” Sea Transport

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José Baños-Pino, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo Galán, Lucía Inglada-Pérez
      Pages 45-60

    6. Determinants of the Demand of International Maritime Transport

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José Baños-Pino, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo Galán, Lucía Inglada-Pérez
      Pages 61-71

    7. The Demand for Maritime Transport: A Nonlinearity and Chaos Study

      • Lucía Inglada-Pérez
      Pages 73-92

  3. Supply

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Productivity in Maritime Transportation

      • María Jesús Freire
      Pages 95-127

    3. Analysis of the Returns to Scale, Elasticities of Substitution and Behavior of Shipping (General Cargo) Production

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José Baños-Pino, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Pedro Casares, Juan Castanedo
      Pages 129-133

    4. Returns to Scale, Elasticities of Substitution and Behavior of Shipping (Dry Bulk) Transport Costs, Some Empirical Evidence

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José Baños-Pino, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Rubén Sainz, Juan Castanedo
      Pages 135-142

    5. Cycles in the Ship Building Industry: An Empirical Evidence

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José María Sarabia-Alegría, Lucía Inglada-Pérez
      Pages 143-147

  4. Port Economic Impact

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. A Methodological Discussion on Port Economic Impact Studies and Their Possible Applications to Policy Design

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo Galán
      Pages 151-160

    3. An Approach to the Contribution of the Port System

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Ángel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo Galán
      Pages 161-165

    4. The Economic Impact of Ports: Its Importance for the Region and Also the Hinterland

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, Ingrid Mateo-Mantecón, José Villaverde Castro
      Pages 167-200

    5. The Effect of Port Infrastructures on Regional Production

      • Pablo Coto-Millán, José Baños Pino, Ingrid Mateo-Mantecón
      Pages 201-234

  5. Regulation and Economic, Technical and Allocative Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Bootstrapped Technical Efficiency of African Seaports

      • Carlos Pestana Barros, Albert Assaf, Ade Ibiwoye
      Pages 237-250
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About this book

The aim of this book is to offer a comprehensive overview of the economics of ports 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 propound a 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fac. Ciencias Economicas y, Empresariales, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    Pablo Coto-Millán

  • Facultad Ciencias Económicas y, Empresariales, Universidad Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    Miguel Angel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays on Port Economics

  • Editors: Pablo Coto-Millán, Miguel Angel Pesquera, Juan Castanedo

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2425-4

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-2424-7Published: 11 August 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-2824-5Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-2425-4Published: 23 July 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Civil Engineering, Regional/Spatial Science

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