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The construction sector plays a key role in providing structures for economies. This paper surveys the literature on key issues pertaining to the construction sector. It starts by summarizing our knowledge about differences in unit costs across time and space. It then discusses key bottlenecks...
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801569
This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...
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This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271362
In recent years, several U.S. government agencies have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their 'responsibility determinations' (reviews of, among other things, contractor representations and certifications,...
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Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … think drive costs. We then assemble a new dataset of project-level infrastructure costs. We correlate the survey practices …
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economics need to be addressed simultaneously to facilitate private infrastructure investment financing. …, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure …
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We investigate the characteristics of infrastructure as an asset class from an investment perspective of a limited … partner. While non U.S. institutional investors gain exposure to infrastructure assets through a mix of direct investments and … private fund vehicles, U.S. investors predominantly invest in infrastructure through private funds. We find that the stream of …
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307758
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 that real wages increase with increases in the capital...
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