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The Dynamic Effects of Public Capital: VAR Evidence for 22 OECD Countries

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Christophe Kamps

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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.

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1224.

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Date of creation: Sep 2004
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Keywords: Public capital VAR model Cointegration OECD countries

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C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models
E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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