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- Facchini, Giovanni & Bonfatti, Roberto & Tarasov, Alexander & Tedeschi, Gian Luca & Testa, Cecilia, 2021. "Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion," CEPR Discussion Papers 16462, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Roberto Bonfatti & Giovanni Facchini & Alexander Tarasov & Gian Luca Tedeschi & Cecilia Testa, 2021. "Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion," CESifo Working Paper Series 9228, CESifo.
- Roberto Bonfatti & Giovanni Facchini & Alexander Tarasov & Gian Luca Tedeschi & Cecilia Testa, 2021. "Pork, infrastructure and growth: Evidence from the Italian railway expansion," Discussion Papers 2021-04, Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP).
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Infractural Development; Political Economy;JEL classification:
- N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods
- N73 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2022-01-10 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2022-01-10 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-TRE-2022-01-10 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2022-01-10 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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