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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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Changes in economy or changes in economics?

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2011

There are evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered … convergence process will be affected. Synthetically, the pessimistic authors are viewing the future economic dynamics as one of so …-Swan model, Mankiw, Romer, and Weil model, etc.) and by empirical evidences, we are considering the convergence in the level of …

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Economic liberalization and external shocks: The hypothesis of convergence for the Mexican states, 1994-2015

Fonseca, Felipe; Llamosas-Rosas, Irving; Rangel … - 2018

This work analyzes whether monetary policy in advanced economies has differentiated effects on portfolio flows towards emerging economies coming from the US, the Euro Area and the UK. The results show the following: First, portfolio flows' response to US monetary policy events is vastly...

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An analysis of the process of disinflationary structural change: The case of Mexico

Vaughan, Daniel - 2013

I study the diffusion process of permanent disinflationary shocks in the Mexican economy using disaggregated price data for 283 goods across 46 cities in the period 1995-2012. I first show that the distribution of shocks shows considerable heterogeneity, with more than 80% of all cases having...

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The impacts of infrastructure in development: A selective survey

Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2015

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

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Thailand's economic integration with neighboring countries and possible connectivity with South Asia

Chirathivat, Suthiphand; Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun - 2015

Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of operational workers, rises in wages, and increases in outward foreign direct investment (FDI),...

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Investment finance and financial sector development

Ray, Shubhomoy - 2015

Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted by a reduction in commercial bank participation in project financing, which has significantly increased the role of multilateral financial institutions and export credit...

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