TY - RPRT AU - Bond, Steve AU - Asli, Leblebicioglu AU - Schiantarelli, Fabio TI - Capital Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence PY - 2004/Jun/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1174 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1174 AB - We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These results are found using pooled annual data for a large panel of countries, using pooled data for non-overlapping five-year periods, or allowing for heterogeneity across countries in regression coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on growth rates is consistent with the main implication of certain endogenous growth models, such as the AK model. KW - capital accumulation KW - investment KW - growth ER -