Investment in network infrastructure – the energy, water, transport and telecommunication networks – which performs a … better. While the paper shows that investment in the network industries has had a positive effect over and above the addition … to the capital stock, there is evidence that investment in the past has sometimes been misallocated. This paper …

This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate … changed investment in network industries. According to the theoretical literature, regulatory uncertainty exposes both types …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale … from a variety of econometric approaches. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on …