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’s infrastructure as a whole. Attempts to raise part of the infrastructure financing from private sources should be encouraged. In this …
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The paper analyses the infrastructure provision in East Germany mainly by an examination of existing literature. At the … time of German unification 1990, infrastructure in East Germany was in a very bad condition. After more than ten years of … rebuilding, most of the remaining need for infrastructure investments is probably in the road sector. Therefore, the planned new …
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Mit der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Länderfinanzausgleich steht auch die Berücksichtigung der Seehafenlasten der Küstenländer auf dem Prüfstand. Ökonomische Erwägungen sprechen dafür, die Belastungen dieser Länder durch Investitionen in die Hafeninfrastruktur künftig...
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We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices of infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …
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We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …
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. They are also attracted to industrially diverse locations and those with better infrastructure. We conclude that the …
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investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even … reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and applying an …
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In this paper, the authors construct country-specific chronologies of house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1-2009:Q4. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of fundamental and filter approaches. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is the one...
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This paper shows that ination in industrialized countries is largely a global phenom- enon. First, inations of (22) OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70% of their variance. This large variance share that is associated to Global Ination is not only due to the...
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The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that...
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