Die Globalisierung beeinflusst die Entwicklung von Städten und Regionen. Vor allem eine gute Erreichbarkeit von Städten und Regionen, wie auch die Erreichbarkeit anderer Zentren aus diesen Regionen und Städten spielen eine große Rolle. In der deutschen Raumordnung wird diese Anforderung...

Civil conflicts are a major challenge to the economic development of a country and its neighbors. The present article analyzes the consequences of conflicts on regional economic integration outcomes among African nations. Our findings document that civil conflicts affect the economic fate of...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service deliverywhen mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatmentpolicies in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on a regression discontinuity design, we establisha causal...

In this paper, we investigate the association between the efficiency of infrastructure provision and the level of corruption, in the province in which the infrastructure takes place, employing a large dataset on Italian public works contracts. We, first, estimate efficiency in public...

This paper aims at analysing the time performance of infrastructure procurement based on the characteristics of the contracting authorities involved. We focus on the execution stage, which is crucial for the efficient provision of public works and their planned benefits. An empirical analysis,...

Исследованы теоретические основы инфраструктурного обеспечения развития финансового рынка Украины. Рассмотрены подходы к базовому понятию «инфраструктура»,...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...

Tax evasion, tax avoidance and fiscal corruption are actions, decisions and policies of individuals and corporate bodies which inhibit economic development in developing countries. As a consequence, the revenue intended for development is unpaid, evaded or avoided, or even diverted, into private...

The choice between private and government provision of a productive public good like infrastructure (public capital) is examined in the context of an endogenously growing open economy. The accumulation of public capital need not require government provision, in contrast to the standard...