This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …

transportation infrastructure on economic growth. The study argues that there is an optimal distribution of infrastructure in the … the population induced productivity improvements and provision of optimal infrastructure in the region will form the two … data for years 1961-2012 on India, the study examines the role of dense population and transportation infrastructure on …

capital. Key for the consistency between data and theory is to account for complementarity between physical capital and flow …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It … efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

commitment for the whole time horizon of infrastructure or innovation investments is impossible. The compatibility of incentive … regulation and efficient investment is thus in doubt. Incentive regulation for regular infrastructure investments therefore needs … periodic updating based on rate-of-return regulation criteria. Innovative infrastructure investments may warrant regulatory …