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Public Capital and Economic Performance: Evidence from Italy

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Federico Bonaglia (OECD)
Eliana La Ferrara () (Bocconi University and IGIER)
Massimiliano Marcellino (Bocconi University, IGIER and EUI)

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This paper addresses the issue of whether and by how much public capital can enhance economic performance. We apply different methodologies to Italian regional data for the period 1970-1994. The results are presented for Italy as a whole, for different macroregions, and for individual categories of public capital. For the Center and the South, the methodologies employed indicate a positive contribution of infrastructure investment to TFP growth, output, and cost reduction. However, the magnitude of the cost reducing effect does not seem large enough to outweigh the social user cost of public capital. Also, we get mixed results on which types of infrastructure are most effective. Overall, investment in transportation appears to be the most productive: railways in the North and roads in the Center and South are the categories that mostly contributed to TFP growth.

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Article provided by GDE (Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia), Bocconi University in its journal Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia.

Volume (Year): 59 (2000)
Issue (Month): 2 (September)
Pages: 221-244
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Keywords: public capital infrastructure TFP

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H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
O47 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General

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  1. Emanuela Marrocu & Raffaele Paci & Roberto Pala, 2000. "Estimation of total factor productivity for regions and sectors in Italy. A panel cointegration approach," Working Paper CRENoS 200016, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia. [Downloadable!]
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