Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences with Public Capital

German Cubas ()

No 3410, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: This paper offers new evidence on the sources of cross-country income differences by investigating the role public capital in development accounting. I explicitly measure private and public capital stocks, and I find large differences in both types of capital across countries. Moreover, differences in private capital are larger than the ones I find for total capital for the richest and poorest countries. The methodology I use implies a share of publica capital in output of at most 10%. My findings indicate that differences in capital stocks can not account for a substantial part of the observed dispersion in income across countries.

Keywords: Income differences; Public capital; Development Accounting. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 O11 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2010-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-dev and nep-pbe
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