existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a … large-scale public investment in roads during the 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic …

transport costs depend on congestion and on the infrastructure in each link, giving rise to an optimal transport problem in … to assess optimal investments and inefficiencies in observed road networks in 25 European countries. The counterfactuals … suggest larger gains from road network expansion and larger losses from misallocation of current roads in lower …

We assess the quantitative impact of firing costs on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) in a dynamic general …-equilibrium framework where the distribution of establishment-level productivity is not invariant to the policy. Firing costs not only … losses. Firing costs equivalent to 5 year's wages imply a drop in TFP of more than 20 percent. Factor misallocation accounts …

streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with more readily understood physical measures of road and lane miles, road quality …

Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure … road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our … measure correlates strongly and positively with other measures of road roughness where they are available, negatively with …

worth around $4.1 trillion dollars in 2016 and had an annualized value that was higher than the total variable costs of the …

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how … equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …

. When the franchised road has no close substitute, the government must regulate tolls. Yet when there are many ways of …-of-pocket cost paid by a user, it increases the congestion cost thereby reducing the drivers' willingness to pay for using the road …. Franchise holders partially internalize congestion costs when setting tolls, which softens price competition. Second, when …