Tuesday, December 4, 2012

$1 of Highway Spending Creates $2 of Economic Activity


Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco studied the effects of unexpected grants to states for Federal-Aid Highways affected gross state product (GSP, or the gross domestic product (GDP) of a state).  They found that an unexpected $1 increase in federal highway grants to a state resulted in a $2 increase in GSP.  The economic effect was double the amount of the grant.  In the short term, effects on GSP were even greater.

You can read the unpublished paper here→ or read a summary here→.  Additional posts and articles related to the impact of infrastructure investment include:

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