This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … millennia, although at times it has been pivotal in bringing innovation, taking risks and driving efficiency. It is argued that … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …

The paper examines the politics of infrastructure in the post-privatisation era. It shows the tensions between the … collectively underpin the operation of liveable sustainable cities. The paper traces the intrinsic role of infrastructure as a … infrastructure funding. Implications are drawn for urban planning and design …

Calderon and Serven provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and … include, among the regressors, infrastructure quantity and quality indicators, in addition to standard controls. To account … for the potential endogeneity of infrastructure (as well as that of other regressors), the authors use a variety of …

public infrastructure. The latter is financed solely by either taxing the input of fossil fuels (carbon tax) or capital. The …

This paper investigates the effects of public investment in infrastructure on private output for Germany. Using a … intervals computed following the bootstrap procedure. Our results suggest that the effect of public investment in infrastructure …

human society. This study confronts the problem here by proposing the theory of technological host-parasites coevolution, an … potential of adopting a theory of technological host-parasites coevolution and to predict which technologies are likeliest to …

we find that economies with low congestion in public infrastructure, in which the rise in output is high, will require a …

) should be valued from data. Reinterpreting the estimated effects of public infrastructure on prices and wages in Haughwout … (2002), we find infrastructure over twice as valuable with our more general model. New estimates based on more years, cities …, and data-sets indicate stronger wage and positive population effects of infrastructure. These imply higher values of …

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To …'s commercial infrastructure, broadly conceived to encompass transportation, communication, and power transmission networks … investment. We begin by analyzing optimal investment in public infrastructure in one country when public investment by the …