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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements
Allen, Treb - 2019
We develop a general equilibrium geographic framework to characterize the welfare effect of transportation infrastructure investments. We tackle three distinct but conflating challenges: First, we offer an analytical characterization of the routing problem and, in particular, how infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479443
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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010
Jedwab, Remi - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481218
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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 light on these questions, this paper uses archival data from colonial India to investigate the impact of India's vast railroad network. Guided by four predictions from a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462170
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462664
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The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion : Evidence from US cities
Duranton, Gilles - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463274
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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017
Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks whose costs voters readily perceive. Consequently, national funding of...
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Infrastructure and Finance : Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20-30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance. Loan growth begins with...
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Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S
Handley, Kyle - 2013
We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …
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China's Potential Future Growth and Gains from Trade Policy Bargaining : Some Numerical Simulation Results
Li, Chunding - 2012
country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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