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Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure

Veith, Tobias - 2010

to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …

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Interest rates, sanitation infrastructure, and mortality decline in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Chapman, Jonathan - 2021

This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data...

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The Investment-Financing-Growth Nexus : The Case of Liberia

Rosales, Manuel - 2013

Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country's growth potential. The government has set an ambitious agenda to transform the economy and to reach middle-income country status by 2030 by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital....

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Infrastructure Investments and Entrepreneurial Dynamism in the U.S

Bennett, Daniel L. - 2019

Investments in physical infrastructure induce environmental changes that serve both an enabling and disabling function, potentially acting to simultaneously stimulate new business establishment and provoke exit by some incumbent establishments. The opening of a new establishment results in the...

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Infrastructure Investment in 2019 : Glad Tidings and Rising Geoeconomic Tides

Firzli, M. Nicolas J. - 2019

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

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Investing in Public Infrastructure : Roads or Schools?

Atolia, Manoj - 2017

Why do governments in developing economies invest in roads and not enough in schools? In the presence of distortionary taxation and debt aversion, the different pace at which roads and schools contribute to economic growth turns out to be central to this decision. Specifically, while costs are...

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Domestic Debt Market in India – Its Resilience in Funding Infrastructure

Swamy, Vighneswara - 2014

As India is projected to be the world's most populous country by 2025, the growing needs of the economy, with expanding population, in the recent years have placed intense stress on physical infrastructure. In order to meet the deficit in the provision of infrastructure, mid-term appraisal of...

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Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal

Issoufou, Salifou - 2014

Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector. In this paper we use a two-sector, open-economy, dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of varying fiscal policy instruments one...

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Improving transport and energy infrastructure investment in Poland

Goujard, Antoine - 2016

Poland has significantly upgraded its infrastructure network over the past decade. However, bottlenecks still weigh on productivity growth and environmental and health outcomes. The EU 2014-20 programming period is an opportunity to improve the management of infrastructure investment. In the...

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Capital markets, infrastructure investment and growth in the Asia Pacific region

Regan, Michael - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-28

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure investment activity, capital market development, the role of public institutions and economic development in the Asia Pacific. It adopts a review approach drawing on empirical evidence over recent decades. Infrastructure is shown to be...

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