Die Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Aufsätzen zu zwei zentralen Themen. Das erste Thema ist die Beziehung zwischen Infrastruktur und privater Produktivität. Das zweite Thema sind die Determinanten regionaler Infrastrukturinvestitionen. Während der erste und zweite Aufsatz der...

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of endogenous deregulation on productivity. We find that treating deregulation across OECD countries as an exogenous event overestimates the competitive impact of deregulation on productivity by as much as 40%

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...