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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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, unanticipated delays in the provision of public capital generate too much consumption and too little private investment relative to … public goods, a social planner allocates more resources to private investment and less to consumption relative to the first …
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, unanticipated delays in the provision of public capital generate too much consumption and too little private investment relative to … public goods, a social planner allocates more resources to private investment and less to consumption relative to the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934762
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
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, unanticipated delays in the provision of public capital generate too much consumption and too little private investment relative to … public goods, a social planner allocates more resources to private investment and less to consumption relative to the first …
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This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...
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In this article we present an endogenous growth model with productive public investment in infrastructure capital …. Further, we suppose that the government pays lump-sum transfers to the household and subsidizes private investment. First, we … that variable depends on other fiscal parameters. Further, growth effects of varying the investment subsidy rate and of …
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investment associated with the main underlying transmission channels. Typically, this type of stimulus fosters economic activity … infrastructure gaps in most emerging and advanced economies, infrastructure investment could have high returns in terms of … individuals’ welfare and productivity growth. Strengthening health infrastructures, supporting maintenance investment, and …
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This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of taxation for growth and savings in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where the domestic interest rate depends on the level of...
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