We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

The study examines the long run relationship and interconnections between public debt and domestic investment in 13 … Squares (FMOLS), debt (% of GDP) and external debt have an insignificant effect on investment in the long run, suggesting the … negligible effect of public debt on the level of investments. But domestic investment Granger causes public debt indicators …

the different response of business confidence and private investment. …

We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a … there is a fiscal consolidation; iii) there is a crowding-in effect for private investment, from fiscal contractions …

paper presents an adapted growth equation to investigate the impact on growth of general government investment and … consumption expenditure, and of public (and private) corporation investment. While the effect of private sector investment is … positive, neither general government nor public corporation investment has a statistically significant impact on growth …

remain low and investment activity is weak. This questions current economic policies of the Economic and Monetary Union … investment volume of 315 billion Euro should be made available, enabled by 21 billion Euro of public money. The budget … expansive public investment conducted through these Synergetic Financial Instruments and thus gathers information to undertake …

This study sets out to examine the nexus between fiscal policy and private investment in five selected West African … the tax systems to prevent the negative effects of public debt on private investment. …