This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...

This paper explores the building blocks of an institutional framework to govern borrowing by subnational entities to finance infrastructure investment. The framework should help in achieving sustainable financing of development needs and sound management of fiscal risks. Based on international...

We show that large-scale debt-financed public infrastructure spending, in addition to (a) generating growth and employment on a similarly large scale and (b) significantly reducing inefficiency-generated public and private costs economy-wide, will also (c) be substantially “self-financing”...