Considering social housing as infrastructure may improve investment in the sector, as well as increase transparency and efficiency in project appraisal and funding prioritisation. It explored different methods of calculating the benefits of social housing relative to cost, including the savings...

The paper investigates the feasibility of using a variant of the spatial equilibrium model to estimate the productivity effects of a specific infrastructure project in New Zealand. Policy makers are interested in the marginal effects of infrastructure investment on productivity and an evaluation...

The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...

This paper documents the potential employment and other value-added benefits of infrastructure investments in Ontario. In particular, it details the impact of infrastructure investment as a counter-cyclical fiscal policy tool. A review of the recent literature reveals that infrastructure...

This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

Kein EU-Land investiert so wenig in seine öffentliche Infrastruktur wie Deutschland. Im europäischen Durchschnitt wurden seit 2000 jährlich etwa 3,7% des BIP für Straßen, Schulbau und andere staatliche Investitionen aufgewendet. Deutschland lag mit durchschnittlich 2,1% deutlich darunter....

Gesperrte Autobahnen, überlastete Seehäfen und Ausfälle im Schienengüterverkehr sorgten in den letzten Monaten neben den hohen Energiepreisen und Materialengpässen für Verdruss bei den Unternehmen in Deutschland. Das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft hat im Sommer 2022 zum dritten Mal nach...

Die vorliegende Studie entwickelt eine moderne Wasserstoffstrategie fuer Deutschland. Der Kern der hier entwickelten Wasserstoffstrategie ist ein oeffentliches Wasserstoffpaket, das weit ueber die aktuellen Plaene der Bundesregierung hinausgeht. Das vorgeschlagene Wasserstoffpaket besteht aus...

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that...

This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significant determinant of variations in labor productivity across provinces, but the contribution of...