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Breaking invisible barriers : does fast internet improve access to input markets?

Demir, Banu; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Panigrahi, … - 2024

This paper explores how improved internet infrastructure impacts supply chains and economic activity, focusing on Türkiye. Using the expansion of fiber-optic networks and firm-to-firm transaction data, we find that better connectivity shifts input sourcing to well-connected regions and...

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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joël - 2018

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

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A tale of two roads : groundwater depletion in the North China Plain

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...

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Public infrastructure and regional resilience : evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to regional resilience in the event of serious health emergencies. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1,000 Germans died. We find lower influenza mortality...

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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

12,877 cities worldwide, a triple difference identification strategy. Quantification using a canonical urban model …

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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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Does the quality of electricity matter? : evidence from rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...

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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra … production networks. In the 1970-80ś, South Asia stagnated due to its inward-oriented growth strategy and lack of infrastructure …

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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy

Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, Alina M.; Wamser, Georg - 2011

The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and … EU's regional policy strategy in general. We confirm this result when focusing on less-developed Objective 1 regions …, where we would have expected the new policy strategy to show up more pronounced in particular. -- Lisbon Agenda ; regional …

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