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Infrastructure and Manufacturing Productivity: Regional Accessibility and Development Level Effects

In: Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development

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  • Edward M. Bergman

    (University of North Carolina)

  • Daoshan Sun

    (University of North Carolina)

Abstract

Infrastructure — and its consequences for regional development — has been treated in business, urban economics, regional science, geography and engineering literatures. Depending upon the tradition favored by the analyst, one might frame rather different questions. Duffy-Deno and Eberts (1991), for example, claim “The importance of public capital for regional growth stems from its effect on production and location decisions of private industry”. Accordingly, infrastructure might be studied to detect whether its early availability stimulates substantial accumulations of private capital investment. Assuming first that infrastructure is fixed capital — subsidized or wholly provided by the state — this could be approached as some variant of the industrial location question. Roads, bridges, railways, water supply, basic utilities (gas, electricity), assembled land and public services, and traditional public works are the staple infrastructure elements considered in such studies.

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  • Edward M. Bergman & Daoshan Sun, 1996. "Infrastructure and Manufacturing Productivity: Regional Accessibility and Development Level Effects," Advances in Spatial Science, in: David F. Batten & Charlie Karlsson (ed.), Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development, chapter 0, pages 17-35, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-80266-9_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-80266-9_2
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    Cited by:

    1. Torsten Steinrücken & Sebastian Jaenichen, 2004. "Towards the conformity of infrastructure policy with European laws," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 39(2), pages 97-102, March.
    2. Piyapong Jiwattanakulpaisarn & Robert Noland & Daniel Graham & John Polak, 2006. "Highway Infrastructure Investment and Regional Employment Growth: Dynamic Panel Regression Analysis," ERSA conference papers ersa06p207, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Nijkamp, Peter & Ubbels, Barry, 1999. "Infrastructure, suprastructure and ecostructure : a portfolio of sustainable growth potentials," Serie Research Memoranda 0051, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.

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