Volume 1, No. 1, April 2002 

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Structural Cointegration Analysis of Private and Public Investment
Rosemary Rossiter
Department of Economics, Ohio University, U.S.A..
Abstract
A structural cointegration approach is used to investigate the relationship between public and private investment, based on dataseries which include software in the definitions of investment. Empirical evidence for equipment suggests crowding out. However structures shows crowding in, supporting the infrastructure hypothesis.

Key words: structural cointegration approach; public investment

JEL classification: C50; E22; E69

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