We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major … importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy …-makers to understand the intended, and potentially unintended, long run consequences of their infrastructure investment …

To this day in Japan, the water supply service for agricultural use has been formed as the supply-driven system. In … fact, the farmers can use the utilization volume of agricultural water and they have to pay the price of agricultural water … fee decided by water supplier side. However, diverse functions are being desired to irrigation facilities in recent years …

Proximity to water is appreciated by households. Hedonic analyses that try to measure the value of this amenity are … potentially biased by omitted variables as locations close to the water may be selected by households with higher incomes who … water may be biased upwards. We circumvent this problem by exploiting a specific characteristic of the Dutch system of …