This paper combines a new historical data set regarding capital formation in infrastructure in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century with data-oriented econometric techniques aimed at testing the causal relationship between these infrastructural investments and economic growth. The resulting...

This paper introduces a time series of the Dutch capital stock for 1900-1995. The estimates were derived using the perpetual inventory method. To enhance international comparability, we followed Maddison's standardized methodology. To ensure transparency a thorough description of sources and...