the impact of public infrastructure across Italian regions, both on institutional and political grounds. Heterogeneity is … addressed by linking the impact of infrastructure on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with corruption by using a random coefficient … measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for public capital stocks …

This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …

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 …

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and …, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential for developing robust approaches to increasing resilience. Identifying … relevant in areas recovering from a natural hazard that have the opportunity to build back their infrastructure, and for those …

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …