Working Paper 9004 CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
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Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The author wishes to thank Paul Bauer, William Fox, and Joe Stone for helpful comments and discussions and Douglas Dalenberg and Chul Soo Park for research assistance. Michael Fogarty and Gaspar Garofalo provided the private capital stock series. Estimation of the public capital stock series was funded in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant #SES-8414262.
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