Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? : The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment

By Olivier Cadot, L. Röller, Andreas Stephan. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Public Capital and Growth (2010, background): “…France, regions 1985-91 Infrastructure capital stock Production function combined with policy equation for transport infrastructure Elasticity is 0.10 Cadot et al. (2002) France, regions 1985-92 Infrastructure capital stock Cobb-Douglas production function combined with policy equation for…”
Infrastructure and Growth: Empirical Evidence (2009, background): “These in turn require assumptions on the channels through which output influences infrastructure investments (see Esfahani and Ramirez 2003) in particular on the political decision-making process of public investment (e.g. Cadot et al. 1999, 2006).”
Government quality and the economic returns of transport infrastructure investment in European regions (2015, unknown): “In the case of Europe, single country analyses (Cadot, Roller, and Stephan, 1999; Stephan, 2000), as well as cross-country investigations (Cappelen et al., 2003; Crescenzi and Rodrı́guez-Pose, 2012) report much lower elasticities than those found by Aschauer (1989) or even insignificant…”
Regional Grants as Pork Barrel Politics (2005, unknown): “Dasgupta et al. (2002) find support for a swing voter model of the allocation grants from central to state governments in India, and Cadot et al. (2002) reach similar conclusions on the regional allocation of spending on roads in France.”
Urban Growth and Transportation (2012, unknown): “To inform our estimation strategy we develop a model of transportation infrastructure and urban growth in which a city can grow by drawing population from rural areas.”
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THREE DECADES OF RESEARCH ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF PUBLIC CAPITAL (2014, unknown): “…Japan 16 −0.001 0.640 0.237 63 La Ferrara and Marcellino (2005) Italy 13 −0.161 0.559 0.053 64 Berechman, Ozmen, and Ozbay (2006) US 9 −0.009 0.047 0.027 65 Cadot, Roller, and Stephan (2006) France 3 0.080 0.086 0.083 66 Kamps (2006) 22 OECD countries 59 −1.726 1.369 0.395 67 Moreno and…”
Network Effects of Public Transport Infrastructure: Evidence on Italian Regions (2012, unknown): “…to political business cycle effects (PBC; Nordhaus, 1975), which are driven by economic decisions of incumbent politicians aiming at increasing the probability of being re-elected (Dixit, 1996; Drazen, 2000; Persson and Tabellini, 2000; Grossman and Helpman, 2001, Cadot, Roller and Stephan, 2006).”
Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994 (2008, unknown): “We received additional helpful suggestions from John Agnew, Steven Ansolabehere, Gary Cox, Yusaku Horiuchi, Jennifer Hunt, Jeffrey Lewis, Karoly Mike, and Frances Rosenbluth.”
Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature (2008, methodology): “Finally, concerning the relevance of the level of development, dissenting views are found in the literature.”
Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy (2007, unknown): “Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy 19 not built to reduce traffic jams; they are built essentially to get politicians elected” (Cadot et al. 2006, p. 1151).11 While some degree of pork‐barrel politics is likely to exist everywhere, its extent and impact may vary. De la Fuent”