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 …

on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and …

This paper attempts to distinguish and estimate the direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity …. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on … infrastructure. An analytical framework is then developed to estimate both effects. Finally, empirical results are obtained using …

Infrastructure and productivity in Brazil. This article analyses the relationship between infrastructure and total … factor productivity (TFP) in Brazil during the second half of the twenty century. Public capital is used as a proxy for … infrastructure capital. The hypothesis to be tested is that an increase in infrastructure - more than than a rise in the private …