Lopez, Diego Martinez; Fuentes, A. Jesus Sanchez - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2006
This paper studies the optimal level of public inputs under two different tax settings. With this aim, we adapt the approach by Gronberg and Liu (2001) to the case of productivity-enhancing public spending. We find that it is not analytically clear whether the first-best level of public spending...