Roads to prosperity or bridges to nowhere? Theory and evidence on the impact of public infrastructure investment

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-142

  Leduc, Sylvain ^a   Wilson, Daniel ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

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EID: 84878957686     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/669173     Document Type: Article

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