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Impact of infrastructure investment on tax: Estimating spillover effects of the Kyushu high-speed rail Line in Japan on regional tax revenue
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991, the Kyushu high-speed rail line was constructed and was completed in 2003. In 2004, the rail line started operating from Kagoshima to Kumamoto. The entire line was opened in...
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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure: The case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015
The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...
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Infrastructure development, income inequality, and urban sustainability in the People's Republic of China
Mendoza, Octasiano M. Valerio - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both...
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The "highway effect" on public finance: Case of the STAR highway in the Philippines
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Pontines, Victor - 2015
In this study, we examine the impact of the STAR highway located in Batangas province, Philippines, on the public finance of the cities and municipalities through which it directly passes. Specifically, we exploit a unique, disaggregated dataset on tax (property and business taxes) as well as...
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Output, Growth, and Convergence in a Creative Region : An Analysis of Some Measurement Issues
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017
creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative) convergence. In the absolute (relative) convergence case, the … convergence case, we analyze how to estimate the speed of convergence parameter (σ) and then discuss the relationship between the … variance of y<sub>j</sub>(t) and that of y<sub>j</sub>(0). In the relative convergence case, we study the error associated with …
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Introduction to Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018
We have two objectives in this book. First, we bring together in one place, original research that sheds light on the myriad connections between disease, human health, and regional economic growth and development. Second, given the contemporary salience of Asia in world affairs, we concentrate...
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Schumpeterian Creative Class Competition, Innovation Policy, and Regional Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2018
We focus on a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. The creative class is broadly composed of existing and candidate entrepreneurs. The general question we analyze concerns the effects of Schumpeterian competition between existing and candidate entrepreneurs on economic growth...
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Positive and Negative Externalities in Innovation, Trade, and Regional Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2013
We analyze the interactions between positive and negative externalities in innovation and trade for economic growth in a region when this region is part of an aggregate economy consisting of two regions. In both regions consumers have constant relative risk aversion preferences, there is human...
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A Two-Sector Model of Creative Capital Driven Regional Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017
We study aspects of economic growth in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida. We model creativity by supposing that the region under study has two sectors. The first sector uses physical capital {K(t)} and trained workers {A(t)W(t)} to produce creative capital {R(t)}. The...
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Human Capital, Knowledge Spillovers, and One Kind of Semi-Endogenous Regional Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2013
We study the implications of the interaction between human capital and knowledge spillovers for one kind of semi-endogenous economic growth in a region. We focus on two cases. In the first (second) case, there is no growth (growth) in the stock of human capital but knowledge spillovers are...
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