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New Road Infrastructure: the Effects on Firms
Gibbons, Stephen; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Overman, Henry; … - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012
data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road … placement by using changes due to new road links and exploiting the spatial detail in our data to focus on accessibility changes …
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From Periphery to Core: Measuring Agglomeration Effects Using High-Speed Rail
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2015
We analyze the economic impact of the German high-speed rail (HSR) connecting Cologne and Frankfurt, which provides plausibly exogenous variation in access to surrounding economic mass. We find a causal effect of about 8.5% on average of the HSR on the GDP of three counties with intermediate...
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