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The Effect of Public Capital on the Productivity – An Analysis on the U.S. Highway Stock
  • Author
    Daechang Kang (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
  • Year
    2010
  • Volume
    Vol.26
  • Number
    No.1
  • This paper estimates the elasticities of highway stock and maintenance spending by the growth accounting method. In addition, the continuous effects of highway stock and maintenance spending were examined. Highway stock has a positive, substantially large, and continuous effect on the private
    productivity, while maintenance spending, as a factor enhancing the effectiveness of highway stock, has an insignificant and negligibly small positive effect. Therefore, the productivity boost effect from road service comes mainly from the amount of highway stock rather than the effectiveness through maintenance spending.
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