【摘要】This study investigates the impact of expressway investment in China’s counties. Byidentifying expressway accessibility through toll station locations, we estimate the manufacturingdistribution along expressways for 2001–2005. We find that expressway accessibility promotes man-ufacturing employment for inland counties by around 41 percent; however, for coastal counties thatalready have high road density and dense manufacturing layouts, the returns from new expresswaysare small. Furthermore, counties close to large cities benefit more from expressway accessibility thando counties that are far from them. The gap first increases in the period of expressway constructionand then decreases as expressway effects are smoothed.

【文献来源】 Larsson J P;oner o. Annals of regional Science.2016(3)