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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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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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We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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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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China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...
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This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using … benefited by a transport infrastructure project. We observe temporal and spatial variation in results, and crucially that the …
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Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high speed rail line connecting two megacities in China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution....
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infrastructure investments as measured by changes in the length of the autobahn net of West German NUTS 3 areas on regional …
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This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …
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important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage …
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