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simultaneously accounts for the real network infrastructure, a distance cost (fuel, repair, tolls), and a time opportunity cost …
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and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower … use data from the recently liberalized and regionally diverse country of Russia to test the hypothesis. Estimating … dispersion varies positively with the regional density of highway, railroad and telephone infrastructure, but negatively with …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure … accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-91 suggest that influence …
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infrastructure to the transition process. In addition to the direct cost savings, infrastructure investment generates important … indirect effects, or transition impacts. The model shows that, by reducing transaction costs, infrastructure intensifies … model, infrastructure also increases the incentives for low-cost firms to restructure which generates additional efficiency …
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We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …
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This paper describes the empirical regularities relating fiscal policy variables, the level of development and the rate of growth. We employ historical data, recent cross-section data, and newly constructed public investment series. Our main findings are: first, there is a strong association...
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This Paper first develops a tractable economic geography model we use to investigate the decline of transport costs as a cause of regional inequalities. Next, we perform a structural estimation of this model using a new dataset on road transport costs between the 341 French Employment Areas. We...
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This Paper compares the observed distribution of the stock of infrastructures across the Spanish regions with the optimal allocation derived from a planning problem in which the observed degree of ex-post redistribution is taken as given. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy...
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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 …
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