John A. Tatom examines the production function estimates that provide the underpinning for these arguments. The author shows that simply accounting for the influence of energy price movements on productivity and for the slowing trend rate of technological change in the typical production function framework reduces recent estimates of public capital's effect on private sector output by more than half.
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John A. Tatom (1991) studied this question.