On the Substitution of Private and Public Capital in Production /

Most macroeconomic models assume that aggregate output is generated by a specification for the production function with total physical capital as a key input. Implicitly this assumes that private and public capital stocks are perfect substitutes. In this paper we test this assumption by estimating a...

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1. Verfasser: An, Zidong
Weitere Verfasser: Kangur, Alvar, Papageorgiou, Chris
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/232
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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