Ex Post Evaluation of Economic Infrastructure Assets: Significance of Regional Heterogeneities in Australia
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 25, Issue 2
Abstract
The process of evaluation is pivotal for ensuring infrastructure assets meet the demands and needs of business and the wider community. An empirical ex post evaluation of the impact of regional heterogeneities for economic infrastructure assets in Australia is undertaken using a panel error-correction model. The paper provides governments with an invaluable insight into the nature of ex post evaluations, which is needed to develop and implement new performance measures to improve the public sector’s ability to future-proof their infrastructure assets.
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Data Availability Statement
Data that have been used for the econometric modeling of this study are published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. They can be retrieved by accessing the official website of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and full references have been provided in the following reference list.
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Volume 25 • Issue 2 • June 2019
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Received: Apr 10, 2017
Accepted: Nov 1, 2018
Published online: Mar 27, 2019
Published in print: Jun 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Aug 27, 2019
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