| dc.creator |
Cadot, Olivier |
|
| dc.creator |
Röller, Lars-Hendrik |
|
| dc.creator |
Stephan, Andreas |
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| dc.date |
2004 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:59:27Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:59:27Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
|
| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18310 |
|
| dc.identifier |
ppn:472639277 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18310 |
|
| dc.description |
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 in°uence activities were, indeed, significant determinants of the cross-regional 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. |
|
| dc.language |
eng |
|
| dc.publisher |
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
|
| dc.relation |
DIW-Diskussionspapiere 458 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
D72 |
|
| dc.subject |
O40 |
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| dc.subject |
D78 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
Growth |
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| dc.subject |
Infrastructure |
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| dc.subject |
Political Economy |
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| dc.subject |
Lobbying |
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| dc.subject |
France |
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| dc.subject |
Verkehrsinfrastrukturpolitik |
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| dc.subject |
Public Choice |
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| dc.subject |
Verkehrsinvestition |
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| dc.subject |
Produktivität |
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| dc.subject |
Regionales Wachstum |
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| dc.subject |
Interessenpolitik |
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| dc.subject |
Schätzung |
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| dc.subject |
Frankreich |
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| dc.title |
Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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| dc.coverage |
1985-1991 |
|