The last three decades have witnessed a great deal of research effort devoted to measuring
the private output elasticity of public capital. The wide range of available estimates have …

During the 1970s and 1980s many OECD countries have offset increases in debt interest
payments and rising social security transfers by winding back public investment. Figure 14.1 …

Purpose: To present a comprehensive discussion of the empirical research on the impact of
public investment in infrastructure on economic performance in terms of the methodological …

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in regional growth theory. One strand of this
has been the work on endogenous growth processes and the natural potential for regional …

This study investigates the relationship between infrastructure investment and economic
growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels, namely, the industrial, agriculture, and services …

In this paper, we use a VAR approach to investigate the effects of public investment in
transportation infrastructures on private investment, employment, and output in Portugal …

I estimate the relationship between taxes and income growth using data from 1970-1999
and the forty-eight continental US states. I find that taxes used to fund general expenditures …

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In this paper we examine the effect of public investment on the regional economies of Japan.
The efficient policy for regional allocation of public capital is to invest in highly productive …

The paper investigates the growth effects of public capital in Portugal using annual data for
the period 1965-95. Both a production function and a vector autoregressive model are …