The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), which consists of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect economic growth effects of newly created TEN-T core corridor roads in Eastern European countries. Both the panel data and the spatial analyses show that regional GDP growth at the NUTS3 level is between 0.5 and 2.0 percentage points higher, if a region has direct access to a newly built road. The analyses with a Durbin model (SDM) show that the new construction of a TEN-T core road also causes positive spillover effects on other regions that have direct access to the corridor network, as well as on regions that are not directly connected to the corridors. The results thus indicate that the TEN-T policy, which aims to alleviate transport bottlenecks, can increase cohesion between central and peripheral regions and consequently enhance regional welfare in Eastern Europe.

欧盟协调并共同资助跨国家交通运输网络（TEN-T）中的超国家交通运输基础设施投资，该网络由公路，铁路，机场和港口基础设施组成。据我们所知，我们是第一个量化东欧国家新建的TEN-T核心走廊道路直接和间接经济增长影响的人。面板数据和空间分析均显示，如果一个地区可直接通往新建道路，则NUTS3级别的地区GDP增长将高出0.5至2.0个百分点。使用Durbin模型（SDM）进行的分析表明，新建TEN-T核心道路还会对直接进入走廊网络的其他区域以及未直接连接到道路网络的区域产生积极的溢出效应。走廊。