IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/motuwp/290603.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Infrastructure’s Long Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics

Author

Listed:
  • Grimes, Arthur
  • Apatocv, Eyal
  • Lutchman, Larissa
  • Robinson, Anna

Abstract

We analyse impacts that infrastructure provision and other factors have on long run urban growth. Reflecting spatial equilibrium insights, growing cities have preferred attributes relative to other cities. These attributes may include natural characteristics, social amenities and transport infrastructure that have productive and/or amenity value. We outline a theoretical model that includes distance-related effects on individual utility and thence population location, and we test this model using historical data covering 1926 to 2006 across 56 New Zealand towns. Instruments dating back to 1880 are used to deal with potential endogeneity issues, and we use spatial-econometrics techniques to test for spatial spillovers between cities. Our analysis shows that four dominant factors have impacted positively on urban growth, especially since 1966: nearby land-use capability, human capital, sunshine hours and proximity to the country’s dominant city, Auckland.

Suggested Citation

  • Grimes, Arthur & Apatocv, Eyal & Lutchman, Larissa & Robinson, Anna, 2014. "Infrastructure’s Long Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics," Motu Working Papers 290603, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:motuwp:290603
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.290603
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/290603/files/14_11.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.290603?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:motuwp:290603. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/motuenz.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.