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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …
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Revitalising the Silk Road : evidence from railway infrastructure investments in Northwest China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …
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High-speed railways and firms total factor productivity : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Ferrara, Antonella Rita; … - 2023
The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...
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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" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...
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Management practices and productivity in Germany
Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...
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Employer cooperation, productivity, and wages : new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements
Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022
Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of joining a FNA on several indicators of firm performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we...
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Bright investments : measuring the impact of transport infrastructure using luminosity data in Haiti
Mitnik, Oscar A.; Sanchez, Raul; Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary...
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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 streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with...
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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry
Kim, Yunhee (contributor); Lee, Jeong-dong (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...
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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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