This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

---transportation infrastructure in a commonly used fixed effect gravity estimation. Guided by this new theoretical framework, this paper shows that … transportation infrastructure enhances international trade more than internal trade and this result is robust to various estimation … methods and different versions of transportation infrastructure measures. Moreover, it shows that the transportation …

infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate the analytical capabilities of the model … transportation infrastructure projects in a spatial context. In the case of Egypt, there seems to be an important trade-off between …

transport policy tool to assess the impact of road-transport infrastructure investment in a region by considering upgrading … roads to highways. We apply this tool to study transport infrastructure investment through the European Cohesion Policy …

infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000 … communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa’s trade … robustly determined by quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure. The …

infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000 … communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa's trade … robustly determined by the quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure …

Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and … composition of exports is scarce. Drawing on the large-scale public investment in expressways undertaken in Turkey during the 2000 …

Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and … composition of exports is scarce. Drawing on the large-scale public investment in expressways undertaken in Turkey during the 2000 …

costs, infrastructure quality, and cross-border connectivity. The high costs of trade make the production process slow and … costly, which forces international trade flows to concentrate on locations with better infrastructure quality and lower …, distance, and infrastructure quality. …