conditions to be more important in determining transport costs. A key variable, especially in these countries, is corruption …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even …

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …

Parameterbereiche existieren in denen die Unternehmen nach einer exogenen Senkung der Transportkosten die Produktdifferenzierung …

Transportkosten für Agrargüter, räumliche Überschwappeffekte, die Existenz von nicht handelbaren Dienstleistungen und eine … ist, je höher die Transportkosten für Agrargüter sind, je mehr positive Spillovers zwischen den Regionen vorhanden sind …

export-oriented firm would locate from a port. We present empirical evidence from South Africa in support of the model. …