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Impact of infrastructure investment on tax: Estimating spillover effects of the Kyushu high-speed rail Line in Japan on regional tax revenue

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991, the Kyushu high-speed rail line was constructed and was completed in 2003. In 2004, the rail line started operating from Kagoshima to Kumamoto. The entire line was opened in...

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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure: The case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015

The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...

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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Regional Systems: A Multiregional Spatial Vector Autoregressive Model for Spain

RAMAJO, JULIAN; MARQUEZ, MIGUEL A.; HEWINGS, GEOFFREY J.D. - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper contributes to the recent literature in spatial econometrics that focuses on space-time data modeling implementing a multi-location time-series statistical framework to analyze a regional system. Therefore, taking as a point of departure the Global Vector Autoregression approach...

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Infrastructure development, income inequality, and urban sustainability in the People's Republic of China

Mendoza, Octasiano M. Valerio - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both...

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The "highway effect" on public finance: Case of the STAR highway in the Philippines

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Pontines, Victor - 2015

In this study, we examine the impact of the STAR highway located in Batangas province, Philippines, on the public finance of the cities and municipalities through which it directly passes. Specifically, we exploit a unique, disaggregated dataset on tax (property and business taxes) as well as...

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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019

There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...

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Theory and empirics of horizontal and spatial integration of local communal services

Czako, Katalin; Poreisz, Veronika - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There are three parts of our paper. Firstly, it gives an overview about the goals and factors which affect the integration of local communal services. Horizontal integration means joining the various individual service providers, such as water supply and sewage, communal waste, district heating,...

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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia

Torbenko, Alexander - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The paper considers the influence of federal government expenditures and transfers on interregional convergence in … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This …. Comparing our results to the results of previous research the process of interregional convergence in Russia can be seen. In the …

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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brazil

Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2015

This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...

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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensionsof economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models (1970-2000)

Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; … - 2015

convergence hypothesis cannot be rejected suggesting there are differences in the convergence processes between the north and …

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