This paper analyses the impact that Spanish road construction had on local population growth between 1787 and 1857. We find that the increase in market access associated to road accessibility had a substantial effect on local population growth. The impact was substantially higher on the...

In conflict-prone situations, access to markets is necessary to restore economic growth and generate the preconditions for peace and reconstruction. Hence, the rehabilitation of damaged transport infrastructure has emerged as an overarching investment priority among donors and governments. This...

Möglichkeiten, die das Land für den Transport bietet, und geographische und klimatische Bedingungen, die ihn beeinträchtigen. Historische und menschliche Faktoren sind die Gründe für die Verschlechterung des gesamten Transportwesens. Die Zerstörungen durch Aufstände, mangelnde...

This paper quantifies regional welfare effects of new transport links, which are going to be established in the framework of Trans-European Networks (TEN). It is confined to the regional welfare effects resulting from the use of the new links for trading goods and services. Effects from the...