全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12745 Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12745
	DP12745 Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision
	Carl-Johan Dalgaard; Nicolai Kaarsen; Ola Olsson; Pablo Selaya
发表日期	2018-02-22
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	How persistent is public goods provision in a comparative perspective? We explore the link between infrastructure investments made during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure today, as well as the link between early infrastructure and economic activity both in the past and in the present, across the entire area under dominion of the Roman Empire at the zenith of its geographical extension. We find a remarkable pattern of persistence showing that greater Roman road density goes along with (a) greater modern road density, (b) greater settlement formation in 500 CE, and (c) greater economic activity in 2010. Interestingly, however, the degree of persistence in road density and the link between early road density and contemporary economic development is weakened to the point of insignificance in areas where the use of wheeled vehicles was abandoned from the first millennium CE until the late modern period. Taken at face value, our results suggest that infrastructure may be one important channel through which persistence in comparative development comes about.
主题	Macroeconomics and Growth
关键词	Roman roads Roman empire Public goods Infrastructure Persistence
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12745
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541555
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Carl-Johan Dalgaard,Nicolai Kaarsen,Ola Olsson,et al. DP12745 Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision. 2018.