This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption. From the modeling point of view, the paper augments a standard New Open Economy...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of welfare effects under multiple policy interventions and non-governmental external changes. Specifically, in relation to multi-dimensional pass-through, we provide “sufficient statistics” formulas for welfare measures under a fairly general...