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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
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 looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in …
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This paper presents a model to assess the efficiency of the capital structure in public-private partnerships (PPP). A main argument supporting the PPP approach for investment projects is the transfer of know-how from the private partner to the public entity. The paper shows how different...
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reducing costs of doing business, improving financial access, and developing infrastructure, could stimulate corporate …
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Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper … examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the real exchange rate. Using a two … intensity of private capital in production, and (iv) the relative productivity of public infrastructure. In deriving these …
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context, the paper highlights the need for fiscal policies to address infrastructure gaps, stimulate private consumption and … public spending rather than increasing borrowing. Supporting structural reforms, aiming to stimulate private infrastructure …
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large infrastructure projects, is increasing. Potential risks of capital inflows are well known but the literature offers …
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