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This paper proposes to identify the micro-level sources for the dynamic increasing returns occurring at an aggregate level. The paper reverts to a micro model of technological change in-line with the evolutionary literature on industrial dynamics. The data generated through numerical simulations...
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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 of such effects would provide a useful check on the appropriateness and … model to estimate the productivity effects of a specific infrastructure project. However, the analysis in this paper …
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This paper presents new evidence on the impact of public infrastructure on the Australian economy. The contribution of …. Second, it employs a new data set on public infrastructure. Third, the paper applies detailed econometric investigations in … infrastructure spillovers to productivity and, consequently, results in incredibly high estimates of infrastructure elasticity …
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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 … a short-run impact and the interregional effect as a long-term consequence of public infrastructure investment …
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Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a …
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Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by … manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19 infrastructure measures, explores the question of infrastructure … the possibility of endogeneity in the infrastructure measures renders the impact of infrastructure capital not only …
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what extent infrastructure and non-infrastructure capitals are related. Our conclusions appear to indicate that … infrastructure capital reduces the production cost of the economy, thereby increasing productivity, only in the second period. In … turn, non-infrastructure capital appears to be mostly unrelated to infrastructure capital in the first period, but to be …
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This study is primarily focused on the productivity impacts of the provision of infrastructure on the registered … manufacturing sector in India. This is analyzed by estimating the cost elasticity of infrastructure inputs. For this purpose we … inputs, level of output and infrastructure stocks. Variable inputs include capital, labour and intermediate input …
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This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …
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