Public capital and productivity growth: Evidence for Belgium, 1953-1996

Economic Modelling

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-116

  Everaert, Gerdie ^a   Heylen, Freddy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Multifaction productivity; Public capital; Technological progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009047504     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(00)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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