INFRASTRUCTURE IN A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH. IN: TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

This paper develops a neoclassical growth model that explicitly incorporates infrastructure and is designed to provide a tractable framework within which to analyze the empirical importance of public capital accumulation to productivity growth. The authors find little support for claims of a dramatic productivity boost from increased infrastructure outlays. In a specification designed to provide an upper bound for the influence of infrastructure, the authors estimate that raising the rate of infrastructure investment would have had a negligible impact on annual productivity growth between 1971 and 1986.

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    Edward Elgar Publishers

    William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court
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  • Authors:
    • Holtz-Eakin, D
    • Schwartz, A E
  • Publication Date: 2002

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: p. 141-161
  • Monograph Title: Transport Infrastructure

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  • Accession Number: 00942183
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 1840645547
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: May 21 2003 12:00AM