Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95282 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni di Dipartimento No. 154
Publisher: 
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ), Pavia
Abstract: 
In this paper we add to the debate on the public capital - productivity link by exploiting very recent developments in the panel time series literature that take into account cross sectional correlation in non-stationary panels. In particular we evaluate the productive effect of public capital by estimating various production functions for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1975-2002. We find strong evidence of common factors that drive the cointegration relationship among variables; moreover, our results suggest a public capital elasticity of GDP in the range 0.05-0.15, depending on model specification. Results are robust to the evidence of spillovers from public capital investments in other countries and to controlling for other productivity determinants like human capital, the stock of patents and R&D capital.
Subjects: 
Public capital
Productivity
Panel Cointegration
Cross-section Dependence
JEL: 
C33
C15
H54
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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