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The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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We study the impacts of public investment, notably in construction and in R&D on economic growth and of crowding-out effects on private investment. For this purpose, we use Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) models and the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) approach for 40 advanced and emerging...
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infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy …
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This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
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This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …
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stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
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This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …
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