On the Economic Impact of the Transport Sector: A Critical Review with Dutch Bi-Regional Input-Output Data

Jan Oosterhaven and Dirk Stelder ()
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Dirk Stelder: University of Groningen

Chapter 7 in Trade, Networks and Hierarchies, 2002, pp 119-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Arguments for state aid and state intervention in favor of certain sectors of industry are often based on their assumed economic importance for the region or nation at hand. The same argument is used, especially in small open economies, when decisions about large infrastructure projects have to be taken. In the Netherlands, both lines of reasoning are combined by special interest groups that argue in favor of state support in the case of extensions of the port of Rotterdam and of Schiphol airport, which are considered to function as the motors of the Dutch economy. But also in the case of more peripheral regions, such as the northern Netherlands, transport and distribution activities and infrastructure investments are considered to be of great importance for the economic development of such regions (see Henstra, et al., 1999). Mostly, the arguments are not primarily based on the own size and the direct impact of the sector or project at hand, but on its assumed indirect importance for the regional or national economy.

Keywords: Transport Sector; Small Open Economy; Freight Transport; Road Freight; Indirect Export (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04786-6_7

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