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Chicken or Egg? The PVAR Econometrics of Transportation

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  • Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt
  • Kristoffer Moeller
  • Nicolai Wendland

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To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of within-city dynamics of transportation. We focus on a within-city panel of Berlin, Germany, during the heyday of the construction of its dense public transit network (1880-1914). Our results suggest that economic outcomes and supply of transport infrastructure mutually determine each other. Both transport demand and supply seem to be driven more by firms than by residents.

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Paper provided by Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE in its series SERC Discussion Papers with number 0158.

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Date of creation: Mar 2014
Handle: RePEc:cep:sercdp:0158
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Keywords: Transport; land use; Berlin; history; panel vector; autoregression;

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  1. repec:spr:lsprsc:v:10:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s12076-016-0171-9 is not listed on IDEAS
  2. Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt & Elisabetta Pietrostefani, 2017. "The Economic Effects of Density: A Synthesis," SERC Discussion Papers 0210, Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE.
  3. Gabriel Ahlfeldt & Volker Nitsch & Nicolai Wendland, 2016. "Ease vs. Noise: On the Conflicting Effects of Transportation Infrastructure," CESifo Working Paper Series 6058, CESifo Group Munich.
  4. Jussila Hammes, Johanna, 2015. "Political economics or Keynesian demand-side policies: What determines transport infrastructure investment in Swedish municipalities?," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 49-60.
  5. Odolinski, Kristofer & Wheat , Phillip, 2016. "Dynamics in rail infrastructure provision: maintenance and renewal costs in Sweden," Working papers in Transport Economics 2016:23, CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI).

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