Infrastructure and Manufacturing Productivity: Regional Accessibility and Development Level Effects

Edward Bergman () and Daoshan Sun
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Daoshan Sun: University of North Carolina

Chapter Chapter 2 in Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development, 1996, pp 17-35 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Public Capital; Interstate Highway; Distance Decay Function; Airline Service; Infrastructure Variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-80266-9_2

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