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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an 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...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure

Malley, James R.; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...

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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria

van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021

commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …

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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study

Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021

whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …

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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth : Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021

This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...

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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Bluhm, Richard - 2020

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...

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Trade Costs and Strategic Investment in Infrastructure in a Dynamic Global Economy with Symmetric Countries

Yanase, Akihiko; Van Long, Ngo - 2021

This paper develops a two-country model of intraindustry trade with trade costs, which can be reduced by public investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and international distribution of manufacturing firms,...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity Performance of Mexican Industry

Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2021

It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in...

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In Pursuit of Fairness? Infrastructure Investment in Digital Markets

Kretschmer, Tobias - 2022

Recent and ongoing investments into telecommunications infrastructure have facilitated the repeated waves of digitization, both in personal and professional life. I address the question of which actors should contribute to investment costs into telecoms infrastructure and how. One widely...

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Testing, not modelling, the impact of cohesion support: A theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions

de la Fuente, Angel - 2010

This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies....

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