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The relationship between regional value-added and public capital in Finland: what do the new panel econometric techniques tell us?

2010; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s00181-010-0424-1

ISSN

1435-8921

Autores

Pellervo Hämäläinen, Tuomas Malinen,

Tópico(s)

Climate Change Policy and Economics

Resumo

This article applies recently developed panel estimation techniques to estimate the elasticity of private production with respect to public capital in a regional framework. We use the widely applied production function approach and regional data from Finland for the 1975–2004 period. In contrast to many previous studies about the productivity of public capital, we focus especially on panel estimation techniques, showing that the results from commonly applied fixed effects OLS are probably biased and sensitive to a change of estimator. To get more reliable results, we use the panel DOLS and panel DSUR estimators. The results suggest that public capital has had a positive impact on private production.

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