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The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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Transit infrastructure is a critical asset for economic activity yet costly to build in dense urban environments. We … plausible mechanism for the price gains. Higher prices reflect both higher rents and lower risk. Infrastructure improvements …
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Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities … value of investing in transportation infrastructure. Future transportation innovations, including autonomous vehicles and …
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, consumption levels, infrastructure, literacy or population density through 2002. This finding suggests that local recovery from …
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Real and private-value assets--defined here as the sum of real estate, infrastructure, collectibles, and non …
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We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The …
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In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and … dominate while in others changes in technology or relative prices are the main contributors. Publicly financed infrastructure …
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Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims … between infrastructure and productivity growth remains controversial. In this regard, it is somewhat surprising that … infrastructure research has developed in isolation from the large literature on economic growth. We develop a neoclassical growth …
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