Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate the efficiency of public investments and their impact on economic growth in the USA using panel data. Results of the study show highly significant and positive relationships between gross state product...

This paper analyzes the factors that play an important role in determining private investment in Pakistan using annual data for the period 1970-2006. The econometric tests undertaken support the view that private sector output, net capital inflows to the private sector, total sources of funds...

This research aims to assess the attractiveness of urban waterfronts related to perceived spatial quality of places, in order to enhance the regeneration of transformation areas in port cities. The main purposes of the research are the development of a tool for the assessment of the...

According to Keynes, increasing of the public investment is one of the best solutions to economic recovery, since it causes strong effects upon the economic growth. However, according to recent studies, public investment expenditure generates less effect in the short term, due to the lags...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of the alternative way of discounting, such as the hyperbolic discount method, for the economic feasibility test on Free Trade Zone development project that needs intergenerational analysis. Design/methodology/approach To analyze...

The national accounts make no attempt to take earnings from culture, as such, into account. This does not mean that the sums which people pay to go to concerts, visit monuments and museums and for other cultural phenomena are incalculable, for indeed the can be estimated in the same way as the...

This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality, utilizing the World Bank's investment project performance data from 120 countries over the period 2000-2021. After detailing the construction of the index, the paper examines how public investment quality influences the...