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QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 70-89Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2018.04.002
Keywords
China infrastructure; High-speed railroads; Granger causality
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- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [41171113]
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The paper investigates the impact of high-speed railroads (HSR) on the economic activity of 200 Chinese cities using a new dataset from 2007 to 2014. We construct a measure of a city's accessibility, which is measured by weighted travel time, and then apply panel Granger Causality methods to determine whether an increase in accessibility contributes to future economic growth in China. Or does causality run the opposite way - does rising economic growth boost HSR? Results document that boosts inaccessibility lead to significant and relatively large increases in city-level economic growth; further, out-of-sample methods document the importance of increases in HSR in forecasting city-level GDP growth. We also compare the benefits to the costs, and find that benefits of HSR in terms of boosting Chinese GDP substantially out-weigh HSR's large fixed costs, depreciation and subsidies. (C) 2018 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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