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Ersa Workshop
Infrastructure and Growth – Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy Lessons
Cape Town, 29 – 31 May 2006
Infrastructural Investment in Long-run Economic Growth: South Africa 1875-2001
J. Fedderke (UCT), P. Perkins (Wits),
J. Luiz (Wits)
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1. Introduction
Renewed interest amongst South African policy-makers in economic infrastructural investment following an extended period of decline (from mid-1970s to 2002) The decline coincided with poor economic growth
in SA In the literature, the empirical evidence on the
infrastructure – growth relationship is relatively mixed
This paper provides a long-run, time-series investigation of the infrastructure – growth relationship in SA
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2. The Role of Infrastructure in Economic Development
Labour-intensive Cobb-Douglas production function, from Barro model (1990):
y = Agk1- (0 < < 1)
where
y = output
A (> 0) = level of technology
g = government spending on productive services (e.g. infrastructure)
k = private capital
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Marginal product of g:
Marginal product of k:
As g/y rises, g/k rises:
As g/y rises, y/k rises but y/g falls
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Maximize utility:
where
Then steady state growth is given by:
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The impact on of raising g/y depends on whether y/g is greater or less than 1:
When y/g > 1, d/d(g/y) > 0 When y/g = 1, d/d(g/y) = 0 When y/g < 1, d/d(g/y) < 0 The core rationale for infrastructural investment that emerges is that it raises the marginal product of other capital… …which in turn raises the rate of economic
growth, but within limits
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Author Nature of study Variations Elasticity Findings
Aschauer(1989)
Cobb-Douglas, OLS, United States (national), 1949-1985.
Non-military public capital
0.39 There is a strong, positive relationship between public capital (particularly core infrastructure) and productivity.
Core infrastructure (transport, power, water)
0.24
Hospitals 0.06
Educational buildings -0.01
Conservation & development structures
0.02
Baffes and Shah (1998)
Translog specification of a flexible production function, OLS, public- sector infrastructure, 21 countries from 4 regions, 1965-1984.
Africa (4 countries) 0.03The elasticities for labour, private capital and human capital are higher in all regions (compared with infrastructure), with the exception of labour in Latin America (0.15).
Asia (8 countries) 0.01
Europe / Middle East(5 countries)
0.04
Latin America(4 countries)
0.15
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Author Nature of study Variations Elasticity Findings
Easterly and Rebelo (1993)
Cross-sectional pooled regression with decade averages, using 36 countries in the 1960s, 108 countries in the 1970s, and 119 countries in the 1990s. † These coefficients are not elasticities. The explanatory variables are expressed as investment/GDP ratios, so the effect of a one percentage point change in the ratio on annual GDP per capita growth is given by the coefficient/100.
Total consolidated public investment
-0.004 to0.04 †
Results for transport and communication support Aschauer’s (1989) finding that infrastructure spending has supernormal returns, and suggest that causality runs from infrastructure to economic growth. More work is needed to investigate the surprisingly high coefficients and the direction of causality.
General government investment
0.388 to0.453 †
Public enterprises investment
-0.13 to‑0.001 †
Transport & communication
0.588 to0.661 †
Transport & communication (IV)
2 †
General government investment (IV)
0.7 †
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Author Nature of study Variations Elasticity Findings
Garcia-Milà, McGuire and Porter (1996)
Cobb-Douglas, 48 American states, 1970-1983, first differences with fixed state effects.
Highways -0.058 The elasticities are insignificant, confirming the results of Holtz-Eakin (1994).
Water & sewers -0.029
Other public capital
-0.022
Holtz-Eakin(1994)
Cobb-Douglas, state and local government capital for 48 American states, 1969-1986.
No state specific effects
0.203The elasticity of private output or productivity with respect to state and local government capital is close to zero.
Fixed state effects‑0.0517 to
‑0.0557
Long differences -0.115
GLS0.0077 to
0.0212
IV -0.0218
Lau and Sin (1997)
VAR system, multivariate stochastic cointegration method, U.S., non-military public capital,1925-89.
– 0.11
The elasticity of 0.39 reported by Aschauer (1989) is implausibly high. They find a positive but substantially lower elasticity.
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Author Nature of study Variations Elasticity Findings
Munnell (1990a, 1990b, 1992)
Cobb-Douglas, presumably OLS (not specified), United States.
National, 1949-1987
0.34Public capital has a substantial positive impact on output, particularly at national level.
48 states, 1970-1986
0.15
Pereira (2000)
Impulse-response functions associated with estimated VAR models, United States, 1956-1997.
Aggregate public investment
0.0425
Public investment has a significant impact on economic growth in the United States. It also crowds in private investment and private employment.
Highways & streets
0.0055
Power & transport 0.0210
Water and sewerage
0.0086
Hospital, educational and other buildings
0.0173
Conservation & development structures & civilian equipment
0.0049
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3. Estimation of the Structural Model
The Barro model and descriptive evidence suggest the following framework as a basis for empirical investigation [equation numbers correspond with those in the paper]:
• y = y(k, g) [6’]
• k = k(y, g) [7’]
• gi = g(y, gj), i ≠ j [8]
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Employ standard VECM model
in which:
Stationarity characteristics of the data: standard augmented Dickey-Fuller test statistics
All variables found to be I(1), except for total capital stock and public-sectorinfrastructural capital stock: both I(2)
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Parsimonious specification of [6’] – [8]:
[9]
Possibility of multiple relationships between different forms of infrastructure, which may render identification of the system difficult Choice of public infrastructure, roads and electricity rests on PSS-F tests and prior literature
12 15
21 23
31 34
1 0 0
1 0 0
0 1 0
LNYPC
LNYPC DLNKPC
DLNKPC DLNIFPC
DLNIFPC LNTORD
LNELEC
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Eskom’s generating capacity: uncomfortably close to winter peak demand Canning et al. (growth); Pereira (growth & inv.)
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Maximal Eigenvalue and Trace Statistics
Null Alternative Maximal
Eigenvalue
Trace
r =0 r =1 55.99*
(33.64)
122.62*
(70.49)
r ≤ 1 r =2 36.26*
(27.42)
66.62*
(48.88)
r ≤ 2 r =3 17.18
(21.12)
30.36**
(31.54)
r ≤ 3 r =4 9.44
(14.88)
13.19
(17.86)
* denotes rejection of null at the 5% level
** denotes rejection of null at the 10% level
Figures in parentheses report 5% critical values
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Imputed elasticities (of output, capital investment and public infrastructural investment) at variable mean values
Variable CV1
(LNYPC)
CV2
(DLNKPC)
CV3
(DLNIFPC)
LNYPC - 2.44 3.93
DLNKPC 0.06 - -
DLNIFPC - 1.37 -
LNTORD - - 87.72
LNELEC 0.20 - -
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Replace LNTORD with LNRLIN, LNRCOA, LNRPAS, LNRFRT, LNPARD, LNPASV, LNGDSV, LNPORT, LNFTEL, LNRGDS, LNRCAP
CV1: • Elasticity of output wrt capital investment:
0.03 – 0.09 (prev 0.06), except for LNRGDS (0.15)
• Elasticity of output wrt electricity: 0.07 – 0.24 (prev 0.2), except for LNRGDS and LNRCAP (both negative)
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CV2: • Elasticity of capital investment wrt output:
2.03 – 6.70 (prev 2.44), except for LNRGDS (11) and LNRCAP (11.2)
• Elasticity of capital investment wrt public infrastructural investment: 0.68 – 1.54 (prev 1.37), except for LNRGDS and LNRCAP (both negative)
CV3:• Elasticity of public infrastructural investment wrt
output: 2.73 – 24.77 (prev 3.93)• Elasticity of public infrastructure wrt gj: all negative (prev 87.72 for total roads)
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Considering the fragility of the previous results, we estimate a more parsimonious system:
[10]
Trace statistic indicates r = 2
12 14
21 23
1 0
1 0
LNYPC
LNYPC DLNKPC
DLNKPC DLNIFPC
LNELEC
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Results reasonably close to initial results:• CV1: 0.06 (DLNKPC) and 0.20 (LNELEC) • CV2: 2.44 (LNYPC) and 1.37 (DLNIFPC)
Variable CV1
(LNYPC)
CV2
(DLNKPC)
LNYPC - 4.20
DLNKPC 0.05 -
DLNIFPC - 1.38
LNELEC 0.16 -
Imputed elasticities (of output and capital investment) at variable mean values
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An obvious concern with [10] is that the results may be sensitive to the inclusion of additional regressors
Consequently, we test this by including property rights and political instability:
[11]
11 12
21 22
31 32 12 13 14 15 16
41 42 21 23 24 25 26
51 52
61 62
1
1
LNYPC
DLNKPC
LNYPC DLNIFPC
DLNKPC LNELEC
LNPROP
LNINST
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Two alternative specifications of [11]:
1. Exclusion of property rights
α51 = α52 = 0 = β15 = β25
2. Same identification structure with weak exogeneity restrictions
β15 = β16 = β24 = 0
α31 = α32 = α41 = α51 = 0
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Imputed elasticities at variable mean values
Specification 1 Specification 2
Variable CV1 (LNYPC)
CV2 (DLNKPC)
CV1 (LNYPC)
CV2 (DLNKPC)
LNYPC - 2.90 - 6.25
DLNKPC 0.03 - 0.04 -
DLNIFPC - 0.98 - 1.34
LNELEC 0.52 - 0.39 -
LNPROP - - - 1.68
LNINST - -0.17 - -0.16
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4. Main findings
Investment in infrastructure appears to have led economic growth in South Africa The impact of infrastructure is direct and indirect, the latter occurring by raising the marginal productivity of other capital This result is robust both to the use of a parsimonious growth model and to a fuller specification incorporating institutional determinants of economic development There is weak evidence of feedback from output to infrastructure; this is not robust
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Empirical studies using US data: wide range of estimates for the elasticity of output with
respect to public capital or some type of public infrastructure Aschauer (1989): 0.39; supported by Munnell (1990): 0.15-0.34 (smaller at state level) Holtz-Eakin (1994): elasticities ≈ 0; supported by
Garcia-Milà et al. (1996) Lau & Sin (1997): 0.11; Pereira (2000): 0.04 Econometric methodologies have generated much controversy
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SA’s economic infrastructure has developed in phases, in some cases closely linked to
the development of the mining industry
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