Infrastructure construction and entrepreneurial behaviour

Frank Bruinsma and Piet Rietveld
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Frank Bruinsma: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics

No 34, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: Two important ways to study the impact of infrastructure improvement on spatial economic development are various model approaches and entrepreneurial surveys. In this paper we concentrate on the second type: entrepreneurial surveys. The empirical results of three surveys are presented. Two surveys concern the impact of highway construction at the regional level, the third is oriented at the urban level. The questions of the three surveys overlapped each other to a large extent, so changes over time in the perception of the impact of transport infrastructure on the firm’s well being can be measured. The surveys showed that the valuation of transport infrastructure by entrepreneurs is not only based on solid rational and objective reasons, like for instance transport costs. -Also subjective reasons - like image effects - are involved. There appears to be a reduction in the perceived impact of a transport infrastructure project over time.

JEL-codes: R30 R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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