Fixing Swiss Potholes: The Importance and Cyclical Nature of Improvements
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This note sheds new light on the dynamic properties of maintenance and repair and examines the behavior of an additional form of capital spending- that of improvements. The analysis examines a unique long-run data set on Swiss road spending.Download Info
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Paper provided by Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee in its series Working Papers with number 03.01.Length: 17 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2003
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- Dueker, Michael J. & Fischer, Andreas M., 2003. "Fixing Swiss potholes: The importance and cyclical nature of improvements," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 79(3), pages 409-415, June.
- NEP-ALL-2003-01-19 (All new papers)
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