We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most …, consumption levels, infrastructure, literacy or population density through 2002. This finding suggests that local recovery from …

dramatic differences in medical care technologies, prenatal conditions, and prenatal care at the move from Ethiopia to Israel …

In this paper the authors examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capitals on the cost …

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The …

In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and … dominate while in others changes in technology or relative prices are the main contributors. Publicly financed infrastructure …

Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims … between infrastructure and productivity growth remains controversial. In this regard, it is somewhat surprising that … infrastructure research has developed in isolation from the large literature on economic growth. We develop a neoclassical growth …

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 …

The impact of public infrastructure investment on the productive performance of firms has been an important focus of …. However, detailed evaluation of the infrastructure impact is difficult using existing studies which rely on restricted models …, nonproduction and production labor and energy) use of manufacturing firms to evaluate the contribution of infrastructure to firms …

We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one … are inconsistent with the traditional view that sees African exports as a passive commodity endowment, where changes are … driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …