An empirical analysis of three econometric frameworks for evaluating economic impacts of transportation infrastructure expenditures across countries

Transport Policy

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 304-310

  Agbelie, Bismark R D K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic impact; Ordinary least squares; Random effects model; Random parameters model; Transportation infrastructure expenditure

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84903908086     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.06.009     Document Type: Article

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