The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, empirical analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. Building on a new database that...

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...

Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11Bundesländer from 1970 to 1993, we examine the impact of road infrastructure onprivate production applying three different approaches; i.e., a Cobb-Douglas production function, a translog production function and a...

his paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular emphasis is placed on the way that different sectors of...

Die Wehrgüterproduktion der DDR verfügte - im Gegensatz zur UdSSR und zur CSSR - nur über geringe Kapazitäten zur Herstellung militärischer Großtechnik.Sie konzentrierte sich vielmehr auf deren Instandsetzung und seit den siebziger Jahren auf militärische Forschung und Entwicklung. Diese...

This paper reports on the development and application of an instrument to evaluate the overall IT fitness of medium sized enterprises. The instrument was designed in 1997 as part of an applied research project with the close co-operation of scientists and consultants, as well as various market...