This paper attempts to estimate the causal effect of public capital stock on production using Japanese prefectural data. We first articulate the difficulty of consistently estimating the regional-level production function with public capital due to the endogeneity of the public capital stock...

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...

Die Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Aufsätzen zu zwei zentralen Themen. Das erste Thema ist die Beziehung zwischen Infrastruktur und privater Produktivität. Das zweite Thema sind die Determinanten regionaler Infrastrukturinvestitionen. Während der erste und zweite Aufsatz der...