In this paper we use a endogenous growth model with productive public capital to investigate the degree to which observed Spanish fiscal policies can account for slowdown in the growth rates of labor productivity since 1970. The model implies a long-run relationship exists between the labor...

Since the publication of the 1982 Kydland and Prescott’s paper, the business cycles literature has experienced significant changes. The traditional view characterized by product fluctuations mainly accounted for by nominal factors was replaced - at least in part - by models where all...