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With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure … scores for a wide range of countries employing metrics of infrastructure quantity and utilization. We find that efficiency … inefficiencies could increase infrastructure output by 55 percent overall, when averaging across 12 estimation approaches …
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This paper investigates the impact of public capital on private sector output by testing and estimating an aggregate production function for the U.S. economy over the postwar period augmented to include the stock of public capital as an additional factor input. We use patent applications to...
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maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship bet …
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maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409074
is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in man …
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supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …
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-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at …
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A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the ""rest of the world,"" is characterized by a vector error...
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productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a …
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The paper investigates how changes in industries' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based on …
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