This paper quantifies the contribution of public capital to productivity growth in the Canadian business sector. The … productivity performance. We estimate the model using disaggregated data composed of 37 industries in the Canadian business sector … for the period 1961-2000. The results indicate that the main contributors to productivity growth, both at the industry and …

This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both … over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significant determinant of variations in labor … productivity across provinces, but the contribution of public capital to labor productivity growth over time is likely non …

infrastructure, growth, and productivity in developing Asian countries. The main conclusion is that a number of countries in … developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in the recent past. This improvement appears to … factor accumulation, a direct effect, and that the impact on productivity is rather inconclusive …

In this paper we examine the effects of the services provided by public infrastructure on the cost structure, private … input demands, and productivity performance of twenty two-digit Greek manufacturing industries. The model of the paper is … the dual cost function. Although the effects of public infrastructure varies across different industries our results …

Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by … manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19 infrastructure measures, explores the question of infrastructure … the possibility of endogeneity in the infrastructure measures renders the impact of infrastructure capital not only …

on industry productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function on a panel of twenty one manufacturing and … industry productivity: in particular, we find a non-linear effect of deregulation, which seems to be more effective when the … extensions in the infrastructure network …

on aggregate output and labor productivity for Mexico during the 1960-2001 period. The richer information set made … cointegrated production (labor productivity) function. The results suggest that, in the long run, changes in the stocks of public … output (and labor productivity) in all sectors. By contrast, changes in the stocks of foreign capital have a mixed effect …

investment policy of the type consistent with U.S. data does not have much impact on the growth rate of labor productivity in our … model, suggesting that other explanations for the U.S. productivity slowdown should be considered …