Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the infrastructure research done over more than three decades, using a database …, trade, education and health, population, and environmental aspects. The results allow for an update of the underlying … parameters of interest, the "true" underlying infrastructure elasticities, accounting for publication bias, as well as for …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of infrastructure on trade in the case of Central Asian countries … and quantity of infrastructure in Central Asia have a positive impact on trade flows. However, estimations by country …. Infrastructure is measured by the aspects of quality and quantity in three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic …

This paper studies the regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on employment and transport volumes by … effects from infrastructure provision on various outcome variables. Moreover, we find that rail transport does not crowd out …