neighboring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a …-fixed effects, we relate productivity to a calculated measure of accessibility that captures the effect of the opening of the bridge …

of the fixed link between Denmark and Sweden in 2000 (The Oresund Bridge) as a quasi-natural experiment. Our Synthetic … absence of the bridge. Evaluating actual trade against its synthetic counterpart for the period 2001-2008 shows that Danish …-Swedish trade was 24.6% larger than it would have been in the absence of the bridge using our preferred specification. The result is …

bridge is tolled under the cordon-toll regime. While less realistic than the continuous-space frameworks used in previous … higher than first-best toll on the same bridge. In addition, the analysis shows that cordon tolling leads to a redistribution … suburbs. The analysis also shows that the cordon toll raises more revenue than is necessary to pay for the bridge where it is …