Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17768 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1224
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that provides internationally comparable capital stock estimates, this paper estimates the dynamic effects of public capital using the vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology for a large set of OECD countries. The empirical results suggest that there is evidence for positive output effects of public capital in OECD countries, but hardly any evidence for positive employment effects.
Subjects: 
Public capital
VAR model
Cointegration
OECD countries
JEL: 
E60
H54
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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