Impacts of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity and Economic Growth: Recent Advances and Research Challenges

doi:10.1080/01441647.2013.851745

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	Impacts of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity and Economic Growth: Recent Advances and Research Challenges
	Deng, Taotao
刊名	TRANSPORT REVIEWS
	2013-11
卷号	33 期号:6 页码:686-699
关键词	transport infrastructure productivity economic growth output elasticity
ISSN号	0144-1647
DOI	10.1080/01441647.2013.851745
英文摘要	The paper provides an update of the survey focusing on estimating the contribution of transport infrastructure to productivity and economic growth. The central questions addressed are possible reasons behind the conflicting results reported in the literature on the elasticity of economic output with respect to transport infrastructure investment. After providing a systematic review of recent empirical studies on the effects of transport infrastructure on productivity and economic growth, the paper notes that controversial results can be attributed to ten causes (grouped into three categories for distinguishing): (1) related to different contexts: research period, geographical scales, and country's capability in enabling economic development; (2) related to different phenomena that are being measured: different economic sectors, different types of transport infrastructure, and different quality levels of transport infrastructure; and (3) related to distinct ways of measuring a similar phenomenon: measures used to describe the dependent variable and explanatory variable, functional specification, and estimation method of the econometric model. Strong network externalities of transport infrastructure may result in nonlinearity of the relationship between transport infrastructure and economic growth. Moreover, the absence of spatial concerns in infrastructure's impacts is another important source of inconclusive results. Finally, building on recent literature, the paper has discussed policy implications and identified several research avenues for further research.
WOS研究方向	Transportation
语种	英语
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000327422100004
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/1901]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Deng, Taotao
作者单位	Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Deng, Taotao. Impacts of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity and Economic Growth: Recent Advances and Research Challenges[J]. TRANSPORT REVIEWS,2013,33(6):686-699.
APA	Deng, Taotao.(2013).Impacts of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity and Economic Growth: Recent Advances and Research Challenges.TRANSPORT REVIEWS,33(6),686-699.
MLA	Deng, Taotao."Impacts of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity and Economic Growth: Recent Advances and Research Challenges".TRANSPORT REVIEWS 33.6(2013):686-699.