Econometric testing of spatial productivity spillovers from public capital
- Álvarez Pinilla, Antonio
- Orea Sánchez, Luis
- Arias Sampedro, Carlos
ISSN: 0210-1173
Any de publicació: 2006
Número: 178
Pàgines: 9-22
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics
Resum
In this paper we review two different approaches followed in the empirical literature to test for the existence of public capital spillovers. Additionally, we explore the role played by an additive aggregator of public capital in neighboring regions versus the multiplicative aggregator used previously in the literature. In the empirical application we compare the different methodologies using a panel data set of the 47 mainland Spanish provinces. We do not find evidence of the existence of spillover effects of public infrastructure.