| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16462 |
| DP16462 Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion | |
| Roberto Bonfatti; Giovanni Facchini; Alexander Tarasov; Gian Luca Tedeschi; Cecilia Testa | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-17 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both national and local political processes shaped the planned railway construction. Exploiting close elections, we show that a state-funded railway line is more likely to be planned for construction where the local representative is aligned with the government. Furthermore, the actual path followed by the railways was shaped by local pork-barreling, with towns supporting winning candidates more likely to see a railway crossing their territory. Finally, we explore the long-run effects of the network expansion on economic development. Employing population and economic censuses for the entire 20th century, we show that politics at a critical juncture played a key role in explaining the long-run evolution of local economies. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Infrastructural development Political economy |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16462 |
| 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/545420 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roberto Bonfatti,Giovanni Facchini,Alexander Tarasov,et al. DP16462 Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion. 2021. |
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