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 …

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 …

simultaneously accounts for the real network infrastructure, a distance cost (fuel, repair, tolls), and a time opportunity cost …

. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy has been too redistributive. …

Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an … electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly … provided goods may become congested, offsetting the benefit of the infrastructure. We use a simple model to show how to measure …

. This Paper analyses the investment incentives of such agents and the role of incumbency advantages in the contest …. Depending on the advantages, an increase in the productivity of the investment can decrease or increase the amount of investment …. The results are applied to autocrats' investment behaviour and job specific investment in organizations. …

of growth. We employ historical data, recent cross-section data, and newly constructed public investment series. Our main … influenced by the scale of the economy, measured by its population; and third, investment in transport and communication is …