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Bird, Julia. "Essays on the Economics of Infrastructure and Public Investment." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU10054.
Full textIn this thesis, I provide three essays which address various issues related public investment. Firstly, in chapter one, I look at the impact of politics on the use of Public-Private Partnerships. I use a simple theoretical model to show that while international organisations and governments globally often promote Public-Private Partnerships as a means to limit pork barrel politics in infrastructure investments, this assumed advantage of Public-Private Partnerships does not in fact exist. I discuss different types of potential Public-Private Partnership contracts, and show in turn the issues with each of these contract types. In the second chapter, joint work with Margaret Leighton (TSE) I examine intergovernmental transfers in Brazil, and whether these lead to increases in local level government spending or whether they crowd-out local expenditures. I use exogenous variation in the level of transfer a municipality receives to find that as opposed to the theory of crowding-out, increased transfers actually lead to crowding in; the local government increases tax revenues following an increase in transfers, and in turn raises spending, particularly capital spending. This effect varies according to the wealth of the municipality, with poorer municipalities increasing particularly their social spending, however it notably does not vary according to the political power of the local municipal government. I also observe that increased local spending through transfers has direct effects on local outcomes, indicating that money received through this channel is not lost to inefficiencies in spending. This is documented in educational spending and resultant outcomes. Finally in chapter three, leaving the political decisions involved in infrastructure provision aside, I examine the outcomes of such investment. In joint work with Stéphane Straub (TSE), we use a natural experiment, the building of a new capital in Brazil, Brasília, and the subsequent construction of radial highways to connect it to pre-existing important towns, to show that the building of highways has substantial impacts on GDP and populations. These effects are heterogeneous, and in Brazil the effects vary according to whether the newly connected municipality connects to an industrialised, richer, well-serviced city, or a poorer, less developed city. In the North, new highway connections lead to increased GDP and populations for municipalities near the highway, as these areas gain access to wider markets and become secondary centres of economic activity. In theSouth, however, for municipalities within a few hundred kilometres of their state capital, a new highway connection leads to reduced GDP and population, as economic activity appears to shift towards the major pre-existing agglomerations. These centres are large and developed enough to have substantial economic activity and widespread provision of local services
Brodehser, Peter. "Quo Vadis Infrastructure Financing?" Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6873/.
Full textSheard, Nicholas. "Regional Economics, Trade, and Transport Infrastructure." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78515.
Full textLukens, Jonathan. "DIY infrastructure." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47634.
Full textMti, Sehlule Nontutuzelo. "Aid, infrastructure and growth." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10960.
Full textWangmo, Phuntsho. "Education, infrastructure, and income performance in Arkansas." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
Full textAdams, Glenn W. "Financing infrastructure a financial nightmare for smaller municipalities /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1995. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Full textSource: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2928. Abstract precedes thesis as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-108).
Lok, Sau-lan Rita. "Infrastructure and project finance in Asia /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19876750.
Full textRockler, Nicolas O. "Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69757.
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Three studies were conducted to analyze the relationship between public infrastructure investment and regional economic performance. The first study examines the literature on economic development and productivity growth. I show that conflicting results from studies by other analysts are the likely result of poor public capital data spanning to short an interval, and an inadequate modeling framework. Public investment may generate small improvements in productivity, but models understate economic impacts owing to the public goods character of some forms of public capital. The second study explores the relationship between economic distress and public infrastructure investment. I use a sample of U.S. counties to analyze public investment according to level of economic distress. With simple investment models, I estimated infrastructure needs for counties with apparent shortfalls. I analyzed the needs-estimates in a series of case studies in which jurisdiction planning and budget personnel were consulted about the accuracy of the estimates. I show that short-run economic distress is not to be linked to public infrastructure investment. Over the long-run, investment varies by level of distress, but as a consequence of private residential investment. The needs-estimating models were reasonably accurate, but missing investment data proved troublesome. Counties proved to be a poor unit of analysis for infrastructure needs, as since significant variation was observed among jurisdictions within counties. The third study demonstrates the need for better estimates of public infrastructure capital stock. I prepared new capital stock estimates for two regions using local investment data and survey-based public capital service lives. I surveyed one thousand jurisdictions in the New England region and the state of Texas. Survey-based service-lives seem to differ significantly from estimated lives. Stock estimates using local investment data and survey-based service-lives produce dramatic differences compared to estimated stocks at the state and regional level. The new data, however, performed just as poorly as other series when used to estimate aggregate production functions. Prior analysts' understanding the relationship between economic performance and public infrastructure investment has been limited because of poor data, and inadequate appreciation of infrastructure's inherent complexity. The research presented here demonstrates that significant improvements are possible and worth undertaking.
by Nicholas O. Rockler.
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Wyatt, Andrew B. "Infrastructure Development and BOOT in Laos and Vietnam: A Case Study of Collective Action and Risk in Transitional Developing Economies." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27998.
Full textSauer, Johannes. "The economics and efficiency of water supply infrastructure." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2748306&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textBertomeu, Salvador. "Essays on the economics, politics and finance of infrastructure." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/316958.
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Shweni, Bayathokozisa. "Infrastructure provision and development in Keiskammahoek." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4609.
Full textTenyane, Katleho, and Denusha Sharma. "Does public infrastructure investment contribute to economic growth in South Africa?" Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44437.
Full text駱秀蘭 and Sau-lan Rita Lok. "Infrastructure and project finance in Asia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31269102.
Full textGökçen, Tankut Serim Erkal. "Influence of urban geometry on public investment cost of urban technical infrastructure:a case study of sewer system in Aydın, Turkey/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2005. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezlerengelli/doktora/sehirplanlama/T000359.pdf.
Full textKeywords:Infrastructure, city form, sustainable development, sewerage systems, geographical information systems. Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 164-174).
Cheng, Kin-man Raymond. "Infrastructure development in Southern China : environment and strategy /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787792.
Full textFirth, John S. (John Stockmann). "Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117809.
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This thesis comprises three essays in empirical development economics. Broadly, the essays provide causal evidence on the effects of various barriers to trade, associated with infrastructure, law, and politics. Chapter 1 begins from the observation that transportation networks worldwide suffer from heavy congestion. To measure this congestion's effect on the production side of the economy, I combine firm survey data with traffic data from Indian Railways. Geographic variation in congestion comes from a recent wave of passenger trains which were planned according to certain rigid rules, making it possible to identify the costs the additional traffic imposes on firms using the railways to ship goods. In estimating this "congestion externality", the empirical strategy accounts for both direct and spillover effects of congestion. It also draws on a traffic model from operations research to disentangle a mean effect (congestion makes the average shipment slower) from a variance effect (congestion makes shipping times less predictable). In response especially to the unpredictability, firms simplify operations in several ways, leading to lower productivity and substantial revenue loss. While affected firms suffer, however, I draw on a general equilibrium model of competition to identify gains to their competitors. Policy implications of these results concern both the management of traffic on existing infrastructure, and the construction of new infrastructure. Chapter 2 (coauthored with Ernest Liu) provides a long-run perspective on the effects of trade costs on the geography of production. We consider India's Freight Equalization Scheme (FES), which aimed to promote even industrial development by subsidizing long-distance transport of key inputs such as iron and steel. Many observers speculate that FES actually exacerbated inequality by allowing rich manufacturing centers on the coast to cheaply source raw materials from poor eastern regions. We exploit state-by-industry variation in the effects of FES on input costs, in order to show how it affected the geography of production. We find, first, that over the long-run FES contributed to the decline of industry in eastern India, pushing iron and steel using industries toward more prosperous states. This effect sinks in gradually, however, with the time needed to construct new plants serving as a friction to industry relocation. Finally, we test for the stickiness of these effects, by studying the repeal of FES. Contrary to popular opinions of the policy and to agglomeration-based reasons for hypothesizing stickiness, we find that the effects of repealing FES are equal and opposite to those of its implementation. Still, due to changing locations of the processing of basic iron and steel materials, the resource-rich states suffering under FES never fully recover. Chapter 3 contributes to the debate on laws against foreign bribery. When governments pass laws to prevent their businesspeople from bribing foreign officials, how does this affect patterns of trade and foreign investment? A literature focusing on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention claims that these laws direct international business toward less corrupt destination countries, with the effect of diverting business away from developing countries. I rebut this claim, using three empirical tests: (i) a baseline test building on previous work but accounting for the omitted role of OECDlevel cooperation trends, (ii) an analysis of an initiative intensifying the Convention's enforcement, and (iii) a test exploiting product-by-destination level variation in pre- Convention exposure to OECD exports. Together, these tests show that the redirection of trade and investment following the passage of the foreign bribery laws was due not to the laws themselves, but to an underlying trend of increased political cooperation among OECD countries, as indicated by patterns in UN voting affinity. This cooperation is what simultaneously led OECD countries to pass measures such as the Convention, and to do more business with other OECD countries, which happen to be less corrupt on average than non-OECD countries.
by John S. Firth.
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Mweemba, Bruno N. "Risks associated with infrastructure project finance in developing countries: the case of Zambia." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/6389.
Full text鄭建文 and Kin-man Raymond Cheng. "Infrastructure development in Southern China: environment and strategy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265984.
Full textMartinez, Gonzalez Ariadna. "Three Essays on Mexico’s Rural Farmers, Poverty, and Connective Infrastructure." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152544457962469.
Full textCubas, Norando German. "Essays on infrastructure, female labor force participation and economic development." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/658.
Full textZhang, Xueqing, and 張學淸. "Procurement of privately financed infrastructure projects." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31242698.
Full textTanellari, Eftila. "Essays on the Economics of Drinking Water Quality and Infrastructure." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27769.
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Rivera, Ashley Caron. "Economic development at the Port of Brunswick: an analysis of the impact of infrastructure improvements." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33964.
Full textLi, Tin-sang. "Build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects for infrastructure development /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18024075.
Full textTam, Tak-jee Angela, and 譚得緻. "Privatisation of public infrastructure in Asia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952331.
Full textIgbokwe, Okezie. "The impact of infrastructure investment on real growth in Nigeria." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97461.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Nigerian economy has suffered huge infrastructure deficits since her independence in 1960, thereby limiting economic growth potential of the country considerably. This research conducted a Granger causality test between Real Gross Domestic Product, infrastructure investment and productivity across manufacturing, agriculture and industrial sectors in Nigeria for the period 1981 – 2012 using multivariate vector error correction model. The co integration test shows that there is a long run relationship between infrastructure investment and economic growth at both at 1 percent and 5 percent levels of significance. Further, the granger causality test indicated a one way causal relationship between infrastructure investments and economic growth in Nigeria running from infrastructure investment to Real Gross Domestic Product growth. We equally established a one way causality relationship between agriculture sector productivity and gross domestic product growth, a one way causal relationship between manufacturing sector productivity and Real Gross Domestic Product growth and a very significant one way causal relationship that runs from infrastructural investment to agriculture sector productivity, all running from the former to the latter. The economic implication of this is that the existing level of infrastructure investment in Nigeria is a significant contributing factor to growth in the level of rea gross domestic product. However, despite the sustained real gross domestic product growth, the Nigerian government has been unable to translate this growth to physical infrastructure development. We conclude that in order to achieve the double digit economic growth needed for a comprehensive economic transformation of Nigeria, the Nigerian government needs to accord greater priority to infrastructure development, particularly in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.
Moghayedi, Alireza. "Modelling uncertainty of cost and time in infrastructure projects." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31079.
Full textGonzalez, Aregall Marta. "Transport Economics and Infrastructure: An Empirical Analysis of the Port Sector." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/386536.
Full textLa presente tesis lleva a cabo un análisis empírico y económico de la infraestructura portuaria a través de la evaluación de políticas específicas. En primer lugar, la tesis se centra en cuantificar el impacto económico de la infraestructura portuaria sobre la industria. En segundo lugar, se mide el efecto de la competencia portuaria y su efecto sobre la demanda del tráfico. Finalmente, la tesis se centra en la evaluación de las políticas regulatoria de precios y su relevancia sobre el tráfico y los ingresos portuarios.
Graham, Tennille. "Economics of protecting road infrastructure from dryland salinity in Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0207.
Full textMayekiso, Sipokazi. "The impact of transport infrastructure investment on unemployment in South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2260.
Full textWong, Vivien. "Infrastructure planning as a tool to facilitate economic restructuring in Japan : the experience of government intervention /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18155145.
Full text李天生 and Tin-sang Li. "Build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects for infrastructure development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31267518.
Full textRegan, Michael Ernest. "Infrastructure : a new asset class in Australia /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18636.pdf.
Full textYoung, Katherine. "Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca177983-e5c9-4ce5-8577-19ef12a9f116.
Full textHimes, Jeffrey J. "Generational factors and resource availability a study of the key components of social capital formation /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2193.
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Zou, Weiwu, and 邹伟武. "Relationship management in public private partnership infrastructure projects." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849629.
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Celebi, Mehmet Ali. "The relationship between private economic growth and public nonmilitary infrastructure capital stock : an empirical study of the U.S. economy." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/332.
Full textHe, Yumei. "Essays on public infrastructure, industrial location and regional development." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39707313.
Full textMutsila, Mpho. "The role of the common innovation infrastructure in economic transition." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41988.
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Garlick, Robert J. "Infrastructure, institutions and economic growth : a time-series study of the South African economy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5787.
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A growing empirical has analysed the historical relationship between infrastructure and output in South Africa, finding a broadly positive effect that operates largely via the marginal productivity of private capital. We extend this literature by investigating the relationship between infrastructure, output and institutional quality: protection of property rights, political fractionation and political and economic risk. We develop a model in the spirit of Barro (1990), which predicts a nonlinear relationship between infrastructure and output (positive at low levels of infrastructure and subsequently negative) and a positive effect of institutional capital on both output and the response of output to changes in infrastructure stock.
George, Matthew William. "Reservoir Sedimentation: The Economics of Sustainability." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5955.
Full textKwan, Wing-mei. "Conflicts resolutions in infrastructure planning : a case study in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22285064.
Full textCubukcu, Kemal Mert. "Geography and the cost of network infrastructure." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osuosu1070245725.
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Juuso, A. M. (Anna-Maija). "Cybersecurity investment and information sharing:an analysis of the economic incentives of private critical infrastructure providers." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201506111850.
Full textBirru, Yohannes Ayalew. "Essays on the role of public infrastructure and medium-term growth strategies in developing countries (with particular emphasis on Ethiopia)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65972/.
Full textLee, James Grant. "Proximate Causes: The Influence of Agglomeration, Access to Finance, and Infrastructure on US Economic Growth, 1860-1990." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467374.
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Lind, Elizabeth Anne. "Goal oriented multiple criteria decision making for public works capital investment problems involving infrastructure with a specific case study of the US Army." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24286.
Full text黃慧穎 and Vivien Wong. "Infrastructure planning as a tool to facilitate economic restructuringin Japan: the experience of governmentintervention." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259327.
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