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  1. Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? The two faces of infrastructure investment

    Abstract: "This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments;... more

     

    Abstract: "This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in production-function estimates and generate testable hypotheses on the forces that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral concerns and influence activities were, indeed, significant determinants of the crossregional allocation of transportation infrastructure investments. By contrast, we find little evidence of concern for the maximization of economic returns to infrastructure spending, even after controlling for pork-barrel." (author's abstract)

     

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  2. Contribution to productivity or pork barrel?
    the two faces of infrastructure investment
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  WZB, Berlin

  3. Zur Frage einer Infrastrukturlücke Ostdeutschlands gegenüber Westdeutschland
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Inst. für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel

  4. Trans-European-networks and the development of transport in the eastern Baltic Sea region
  5. Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment
  6. Zur Frage einer Infrastrukturlücke Ostdeutschlands gegenüber Westdeutschland