The Effects of Highway Tolls on Private Business Activity – Results from a Natural Experiment
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- David B Audretsch & Dirk Christian Dohse & João Pereira dos Santos, 2020. "The effects of highway tolls on private business activity—results from a natural experiment [Is public expenditure productive?]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 20(6), pages 1331-1357.
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Keywords
infrastructure provision; highway tolls; regional economic development; natural experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R48 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government Pricing and Policy
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2018-07-09 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-SBM-2018-07-09 (Small Business Management)
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