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 … neighboring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms …

present day. We study the impact of these public investments on plant productivity and resource allocation efficiency. We … than otherwise comparable plants. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we find that productivity rises and its cross …-plant dispersion falls with improvements in local transportation infrastructure. While plant entry and exit play an important role in …

In this paper we add to the debate on the public capital - productivity link by exploiting very recent developments in … controlling for other productivity determinants like human capital, the stock of patents and R&D capital. …

account for the U.S. productivity slowdown …

This paper examines the relationship between real wages in the United States and productivity. The measure of … productivity includes the impact of public capital as well as private capital. Both neo-classical and Keynesian theories predict … studies. These studies, however, ignore the impact of public capital on productivity. Using Cobb-Douglas production function …

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 …The paper investigates the feasibility of using a variant of the spatial equilibrium model to estimate the productivity …

This paper quantifies the contribution of public capital to productivity growth in the Canadian business sector. The … productivity performance. We estimate the model using disaggregated data composed of 37 industries in the Canadian business sector … for the period 1961-2000. The results indicate that the main contributors to productivity growth, both at the industry and …

on industry productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function on a panel of twenty one manufacturing and … industry productivity: in particular, we find a non-linear effect of deregulation, which seems to be more effective when the … extensions in the infrastructure network …