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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2023

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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Soft Budgets and Renegotiations in Public-Private Partnerships

Engel, Eduardo M. R. A. - 2009

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

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Railroads of the Raj : Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

Donaldson, Dave - 2010

How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new …

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The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion : Evidence from Us Cities

Duranton, Gilles - 2010

We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. We find that VKT increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra VKT: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in...

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The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements

Allen, Treb - 2019

infrastructure investments. We tackle three distinct but conflating challenges: First, we offer an analytical characterization of the … routing problem and, in particular, how infrastructure investment between any two connected locations decreases the total …

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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks whose costs voters readily …

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab, Remi; Storeygard, Adam - 2022

Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant...

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The Property Tax as a Coordinating Device : Financing Indiana'S Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835 to 1842

Wallis, John Joseph - 2021

The state of Indiana set out to build a Mammoth system of canals, railroads, and turnpikes in 1836, after a decade of intense debate in which sectional rivalries prevented any state action. This paper investigates the role played by the adoption of an ad valorem property tax in ameliorating the...

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Valuing Incremental Highway Capacity in a Network

Klaiber, H. Allen - 2010

The importance of increments to an existing highway system depends upon their contributions to the accessibility provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway investment programs. He argued it could be implemented by...

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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Glaeser, Edward L.; Poterba, James M. - 2021

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 …

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