New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Christophe Kamps ()

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Abstract: The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers have investigated the output effects of public investment- recognizing that investment may be a poor proxy for the corresponding capital stock. This paper attempts to overcome the data shortage by providing internationally comparable capital stock estimates for 22 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.

Keywords: Capital stock; capital goods; public capital; perpetual inventory method; OECD countries; public investment; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 E22 E62 H54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mac and nep-pbe
Date: 2005-06-23
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 39
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Working Paper: New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001 (2004)
Journal Article: New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries, 1960-2001 (2006)
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