This paper summarizes economic research on investment in public infrastructure and introduces the findings of several … in building, financing, and operating infrastructure, including limitations of private capital markets, externalities …, and the control of natural monopolies. It then describes the conditions that characterize an optimal infrastructure …

Infrastructure provides critical support for economic activity, and assessing its role requires reliable measures. This … paper provides an overview of U.S. infrastructure data in the National Economic Accounts. After developing definitions of … basic, social, and digital infrastructure, we assess trends in each of these categories and their components. Results are …

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used to provide infrastructure services. Even though PPPs have the …

transportation infrastructure …

implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and …

Our purpose in this paper is to examine how one might evaluate and measure the contribution of public infrastructure …, we find that increases in public infrastructure capital, ceteris paribus, reduce private sector costs. We compute that … amount of public infrastructure capital that would rationalize the cost savings incurred by the private business and …