productivity growth. Most measures of multifactor productivity consider only the inputs of the business sector. This paper produces … an alternate measure of multifactor productivity for the business sector that incorporates the impact of public capital …

the paper is three-fold. First, it estimates measures of multifactor productivity for each of the states and territories … infrastructure spillovers to productivity and, consequently, results in incredibly high estimates of infrastructure elasticity …. Second, whether state-specific characteristics exhibit a significant role in explaining effects on productivity. To answer …

This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both … productivity across provinces, but the contribution of public capital to labor productivity growth over time is likely non …