Firm inventory behavior and the returns from highway infrastructure investments

By C. Shirley, Clifford Winston. 2004

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The Effect of Government Highway Spending on Road Users' Congestion Costs (2006, unknown): “Why is government spending so ineffective at reducing congestion costs? Shirley and Winston [12] argue that highway spending is compromised by inefficiencies related to pork barrel politics, by slow and inappropriate responses to demographic changes, by excessive maintenance expenditures caused by p”
Should Automobile Fuel Economy Standards be Tightened? (2007, background): “…on average, 22 cents at the state level (from dividing state tax receipts by gasoline sales using DOC 2000, Tables 1022 and 1174). r H is the rate of return on highway spending; evidence on this is mixed, though a plausible range might be r H = 0 − 0.3 ( e.g., TRB 2006, Shirley and Winston 2004).”
Corporate trade credit and inventories: New evidence of a trade-off from accounts payable and receivable (2009, background): “In addition, as Shirley and Winston (2004) suggest, inventory costs differ significantly across industries.”