same firm when a better design of the infrastructure helps also to save on operating costs (positive externality … environments where the quality of the infrastructure may be hard to describe in advance, we isolate conditions under which either …

and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower … dispersion varies positively with the regional density of highway, railroad and telephone infrastructure, but negatively with …

public deficit, while in the second they are used in cost-reducing public investment in infrastructure. In the latter case …

consistent with factor mobility playing an important role in determining the economic benefits of infrastructure development. …

difference is largely explained by the persistent effect of infrastructure built by Prussians at the time of industrialization …

in terms of high investment in physical infrastructure and human capital compensated for the costs in allocative …, from infrastructure and human capital than they suffered from weak market incentives. For initially relatively rich … countries the opposite is true. Second, using various measures of physical stocks of infrastructure and human capital we show …

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional … motorways -- has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to …

reconcile the existing findings. Some evidence points to positive benefits of infrastructure expenditure, and also investment in …