Abstract During the period 2003–2016, China's infrastructure investment as a share of GDP
outpaced, by a large margin, the average GDP share of entire government investment in …

This paper exploits the rapid expansion of China's road infrastructure in the 2000s to
empirically investigate the pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure via the allocative …

In this paper we study whether or not transportation infrastructure disrupts local monopsony
power in labor markets using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using …

The productivity effect of infrastructure investment is controversial in the traditional literature
using aggregate production function estimation due to reverse causality. This paper …

Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products
from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a …

This paper examines the impact of roads on structural transformation and business
composition theoretically and empirically. We develop a two-sector model of regional trade …

We study how the extensive expansion of high-speed rail (HSR) affects the demand for
skilled labor and trade patterns in China. Our empirical findings show that HSR connections …

We examine the relationship between new road infrastructure and local labor markets in
India's manufacturing sector by exploiting the variation in completion times of a major …

Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products
from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a …

This dissertation studies two key determinants of economic development: infrastructure and
financial frictions. Concretely, I study their impact on firms in China, a country of rapid …