The implications of the new Silk Road railways on local development

Ling Fang, Martin Kleimann, Yuan Li, Hans-Jörg Schmerer

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new railway connection is not systematically associated with short-run economic growth. However, it spurs employment and road freight by stimulating intermodal transport.

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Year of publication:	[2019]
Authors:	Fang, Ling ; Kleimann, Martin ; Li, Yuan ; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	infrastructure \| development \| trade \| Infrastrukturpolitik \| Infrastructure policy \| Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen \| International economic relations \| Neue Seidenstraße \| New silk road \| China \| Infrastrukturinvestition \| Infrastructure investment \| Welt \| World \| Verkehrsweg \| Transport route \| Schienenverkehr \| Railway transport

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	CESifo working papers. - München : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2364-1428, ZDB-ID 2065232-X. - Vol. no. 7923 (October 2019)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/207314 [Handle]
Classification:	F00 - International Economics. General ; F15 - Economic Integration ; F19 - Trade. Other
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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