How should a policy-maker prioritize interventions to improve the public infrastructure with which firms operate and … public input character of physical infrastructure and institutions, and uses an O-ring production function to model the … impact of poor quality infrastructure on output. Using survey data from over 72,000 firms in 95 countries, we verify the …

into joint ventures is especially relevant in the context of infrastructure projects in developing countries, though other …

income between the two regions. An improvement in infrastructure in the poor region has the exact reverse effect. In this …

public deficit, while in the second they are used in cost-reducing public investment in infrastructure. In the latter case …

and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower … dispersion varies positively with the regional density of highway, railroad and telephone infrastructure, but negatively with …

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the social returns to infrastructure investments that intensify product …, where unit transport cost measures the intensity of competition (quality of infrastructure). The static and dynamic welfare … effects of infrastructure investment that lowers unit transport cost are analysed, focusing on market selection among …