Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating Asia's export-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets competitive. Efficient infrastructure services lower transaction costs, raise value added, and increase potential...

This paper studies the regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on employment and transport volumes by combining the quantitative econometric method with qualitative case studies. The quantitative method that we use is synthetic control, which allows us to analyze the causal effects...

This paper evaluates the effect of high-speed rail (THSR) on the land prices of targeted regions (THSR regions) in Taipei,China using prefectural-level data from 1993 to 2017. The construction of THSR started in 2000 and was finished in 2006. The THSR line to Zuoying (Kaohsiung City) first...