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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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transportation infrastructure …
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used to provide infrastructure services. Even though PPPs have the …
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Empirical evidence suggesting that a considerable amount of horizontal strategic interaction exists amongst governments is important in light of recent devolutionary trends of many important public programs. The empirical approach in these studies typically relies on estimating reaction...
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implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and …
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In this paper the authors examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capitals on the cost …
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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 …
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