This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset ofbilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of …

through which highway infrastructure facilitated aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation across space. I find … that highway infrastructure in China promoted aggregate TFP growth through the entry of new firms and the reallocation …This paper examines the effects of economic integration resulting from highway construction on aggregate productivity …

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a … neighboring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms …

on industry productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function on a panel of twenty one manufacturing and … industry productivity: in particular, we find a non-linear effect of deregulation, which seems to be more effective when the … extensions in the infrastructure network …

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 …

components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … are higher than those for roads under the existing Indian infrastructure network, but improvements in ports and roads have …

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 …

Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal … the quality of transport infrastructure, viz. the opening of the Great Belt bridge connecting the Copenhagen area with a … neighbouring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms …

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …