Riding on the New Silk Road: Quantifying the Welfare Gains from High-Speed Railways

Event: Conference on Spillover Effects of High-Speed Rail and Quality of Life

Riding on the New Silk Road: Quantifying the Welfare Gains from High-Speed Railways

14 November 2018

Author / Speaker:

Mingzhi Xu, Peking University - Email the author | Other materials by the author

This presentation looks into the aggregate and distributional impacts of High-Speed Railways (HSR) in an economy with producer–supplier linkages. The HSR connection generates productivity gains by improving the efficiency of firm-to-firm matching and leading firms to search for more and better suppliers.

Geographical Focus:

China, People's Republic of

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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