On the Long Run Effects of Public Capital and Disaggregated Public Capital on Aggregate Output

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-281

  Batina, Raymond G ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intl Institute of Public Finance   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Error correction model; Public capital; VAR model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343918013     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008626025932     Document Type: Article

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