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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …

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Constructing BEA highways and streets net wealth stocks with detailed types of investment and engineering-based estimates of depreciation

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Kornfeld, Robert - 2024

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

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Infrastructure's imprint : metro proximity and property development dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024

causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of … associated with the new metro infrastructure and dynamic impacts after the opening of the first metro station, with effects that …

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Good and bad institutions : is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...

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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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More is better! : what can firm-specific estimates of the impact of institutional quality on performance tell us?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2014

We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...

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Do institutions affect social preferences? : evidence from divided Korea

Kim, Byung-Yeon; Choi, Syngjoo; Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae; … - 2013

The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students to conduct laboratory experiments eliciting social...

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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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Remittances, institutions and economic growth

Catrinescu, Natalia; León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; Piracha, … - 2006

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased enormously over the last decade, academic and...

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