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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18051| Title: | Assessing the contribution of public capital to private production |
| Keywords: | ddc:330 Infrastruktur Wertschöpfung Privatwirtschaft Verarbeitendes Gewerbe Produktionsfunktion Schätzung Deutschland |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11West German ?Bundesländer? (Federal States) from 1970 to 1996, I examine the impact of public capital on private production. My econometric analysis explicitly takes into account four of the most frequent specification issues in the context of time-series cross-section data analysis: serial correlation, groupwise heteroscedasticity, cross-sectional correlation and nonstationarity of data. For all approaches and tested specifications, I find that public capital is a significant input for production in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, I find that differences in public capital endowment can explain long-term differences in productivity across the Bundesländer. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from this finding is that differences in public capital endowment might also explain a part of the still-existing productivity gap between manufacturing in East and West Germany. However, I emphasise that the existence of positive effects of public capital on private production is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for concluding that public investments should be boosted in the future. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18051 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18051 ppn:36744559X |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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