I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

human society. This study confronts the problem here by proposing the theory of technological host-parasites coevolution, an … potential of adopting a theory of technological host-parasites coevolution and to predict which technologies are likeliest to …

future H2 infrastructure will be needed. The paper aims to assess three H2 infrastructures for Germany within a European …. Own socio-technical scenarios are used to include findings from four disciplines for a holistic infrastructure evaluation …

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major … importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy …-makers to understand the intended, and potentially unintended, long run consequences of their infrastructure investment …

we find that economies with low congestion in public infrastructure, in which the rise in output is high, will require a …

) should be valued from data. Reinterpreting the estimated effects of public infrastructure on prices and wages in Haughwout … (2002), we find infrastructure over twice as valuable with our more general model. New estimates based on more years, cities …, and data-sets indicate stronger wage and positive population effects of infrastructure. These imply higher values of …

We explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. To …'s commercial infrastructure, broadly conceived to encompass transportation, communication, and power transmission networks … investment. We begin by analyzing optimal investment in public infrastructure in one country when public investment by the …

High-quality infrastructure will boost regional economic development and reduce poverty and income inequality. The … spill-over effects created by this high-quality infrastructure will be seen in the form of an increase in gross domestic … product and tax revenue in the region. These positive effects can be utilized to address the gap between infrastructure demand …