This book analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic effects of public
capital in industrialized countries. The issue of whether public
capital is productive has received a great deal of recent
attention. Yet, existing empirical analyses have been limited to a
small set of countries. This book presents a new database that
provides internationally comparable capital stock estimates for 22
OECD countries for the 1960-2001 period. Building on this database,
the book estimates the dynamic effects of public capital using a
variety of econometric methods. The results suggest that public
capital is productive in OECD countries on average. The theoretical
analysis based on a dynamic general equilibrium model shows that
the effects of public capital depend crucially on the way the
government chooses to finance additional spending.
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