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This research develops new methods to optimize transport networks, focusing on how investments in infrastructure can enhance social welfare. The project analyzes urban transport dynamics and evaluates historical data to improve economic efficiency in transportation.
Every year, the world economy invests a large amount of resources to improve or develop transport infrastructure.
How should these investments be allocated to maximize social welfare?
In this proposal, I propose to develop and apply new methods to study optimal transport networks in general-equilibrium models of international trade, urban economics and economic geography.
The methodology will build on recent work (Fajgelbaum and Schaal, 2017), in which my coauthor and I studied the network desi…
Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
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