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How to estimate the productivity of public capital ?

Hurlin, Christophe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001

This paper proposes an evaluation of the main empirical approaches used in the literature to estimate the productive contribution of public capital stock to private factors productivity and growth. Our analysis is based on the replication of these approaches on pseudo samples generated using a...

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How Long Does it Take to Become an Entrepreneurial Society - The Case of German Convergence in Self-Employment

Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …-up process is observed for East German regions during the period under study. However, the general convergence between East and … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …

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Direct and indirect effects of new businesses on regional employment - An empirical analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze different types of effects that new businesses may have on regional employment. We introduce different measures for employment change by separating employment change in incumbent businesses and employment change in new businesses. There are pronounced differences between regions with...

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The Contribution of New Businesses to Regional Employment - An Empirical Analysis of the Direct Employment Effect

Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...

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Are Public Investment Efficient in Creating Capital Stock in Developing Countries?

Arestoff, Florence; Hurlin, Christophe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

In many poor countries, the problem is not that governments do not invest, but that these investments do not create productive capital. So, the cost of public investments does not correspond to the value of the capital stocks. In this paper, we propose an original non parametric approach to...

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Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 26 Developing Countries, 1970-2002

Hurlin, Christophe; Arestoff, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

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