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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia
Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021
This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and where policies are applied. We set up a...
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Can white elephants kill? : unintended consequences of infrastructure development in Peru
Bancalari, Antonella - 2020
It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …
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Coordination of infrastructure investment across levels of government
Gamper, Catherine; Charbit, Claire - 2014
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Financing infrastructure
Mello, Luiz R. de; Sutherland, Douglas - 2014
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Can white elephants kill? : unintended consequences of infrastructure development
Bancalari, Antonella - 2022
I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …
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Public investment in Belgium : current state and economic impact
Biatour, Bernadette; Kegels, Chantal; Van der Linden, Jan; … - 2017
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Complementarities in infrastructure : evidence from rural India
Vanden Eynde, Oliver; Wren-Lewis, Liam - 2021
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Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021
Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …
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Public capital, private capital, and economic growth
Bucci, Alberto - 2012
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Termination fees and contract design in public-private partnerships
Buso, Marco; Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 2018
We study the effects of granting an exit option that enables the private party to early terminate a PPP project if it turns out to be loss-making. In a continuous time setting with hidden information about stochastic operating profits, we show that a revenue-maximizing government can optimally...
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