This paper attempts to distinguish and estimate the direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity … kinds of infrastructure - road, telecommunication servers, and cable - are found to directly promote firm productivity; (2 …. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on …

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 …

The article summarises the essence of airport infrastructure and explores the roles of production airport … infrastructure in the world air transport system. It is noted that airport infrastructure is a complex dynamic subsystem of global … production infrastructure of the world economy and is aimed at providing competitive air transportation services. It is …

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked … channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn … generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In this paper, we document and quantify the importance of this channel by …