Estimation of accessibility elasticities in connection with the Öresund fixed link using a panel of micro-data

• The productivity of public infrastructure has been the subject of numerous studies during the last two decades, often with vastly differing results. Matters of concern for these estimates have been the level of aggregation of the data, the measurement of the infrastructure stock, and endogeneitybias. In an attempt to estimate the wider economic impacts of the Öresund fi…xed link, these issues are addressed by estimating production functions from fi…rm data in Scania——the Swedish part of the Öresund region——using a novel method due to Olley and Pakes (1996), that takes endogenous inputchoices and self-selection into account. As a measure of the service provided by the infrastructure, accessibility to the workforce is used on a fi…ne-grained geographic level. The sign and signi…ficance of the two sources of bias are tested, as well as the robustness of the accessibility parameter with respect to the speci…cation of the barrier of trips across Öresund.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Firm performance

agglomeration

market potential

accessibility

Öresund region

Olley and Pakes.

Economic geography

Ekonomisk geografi

SRA - Transport

SRA - Transport

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