While conservation of privately owned buildings is produced by the private market, the benefit from conservation accrues not only to the estate of the building's owners, but also to the society at large. Conservation usually requires public involvement, as often market forces do not economically...

Public Investment and Regional Economic Development provides a systematic analysis of the complex relationship between public investment and regional economic development. The authors offer new insights into the key issues of regional growth, and present a broad variety of perspectives ranging...

In this article we discuss the relationships between transportation infrastructure, firm location, agglomeration and regional development. We will argue that the spatial transaction costs faced by modern firms have changed over recent decades, and that this has changed the ways in which...