EIB Papers Volume 13. n°2/2008

Infrastructure investment, growth and cohesion
The economics of regional transport investment

• Preface by Torsten Gersfelt, Vice-President
• Infrastructure and economic geography: An overview of theory and evidence (Gianmarco Ottaviano)
• The politico-economic determinants and productivity effects of regional transport investment in Europe (Achim Kemmerling and Andreas Stephan)
• Infrastructure endowment and investment as determinants of regional growth in the European Union (Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodriguez-Pose)
• Agglomeration and cross-border infrastructure (Diego Puga)
• The death of distance? Economic implications of infrastructure improvement in Russia (David Brown, Marianne Fay, John Felkner, Somik Lall and Hyoung Gun Wang)

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