This paper examines the effects of government spending on infrastructure within an endogenous growth model populated by consumers with finite horizons. It highlights the role of finite horizons in such a framework, and also compares and contrasts the effects of government spending on...

The paper investigates how changes in fiscal policy can affect relative prices, composition of private consumption, growth and welfare in a two-country, overlapping generations model of endogenous growth. We develop a simple framework that combines Blanchard-type consumers with uncertain...