In this paper the effects of government spending on economic growth are analyzed. In this sense, the aim is to examine the implications for growth by developing a simple model of capital accumulation in a sector where productive government spending takes the form of public investment in...

This paper assesses the macroeconomic effects of public expenditure on the behavior of the firms and the demand of the factors of production in an economy to determine if the public infrastructure is un input more (next to the labor and stock of private capital) in the determination of the...

This paper discusses the role of public investment in the determination of output growth from different theoretical and empirical points of view. The light is shed on the factors that allegedly explain the success and/or the failure of public investment policies in enhancing productivity and...

Using a newly-developed data set, we analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance in Portugal. A vector-autoregressive approach estimates the elasticity and marginal products of twelve types of infrastructure investment on private investment, employment and output. We...

The paper aims at analyzing macroeconomic and financial strategies, which are to ensure achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Kyrgyz Republic. The paper is based on results of simulations generated through the application of standard MAMS, a computable general equilibrium...

We examine the evolution of public investment and public capital stocks in Europe during the past three decades. Against this background, we employ an array of econometric techniques to assess the macroeconomic determinants of public investment, with a special focus on its long-term trend. We...

Gerade im öffentlichen Hochbau scheint es vermehrt zu Bauzeit- und vor allem Kostenüberschreitungen zu kommen, die auch regelmäßig vom Bundesrechnungshof beanstandet werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende Arbeit die haushaltsrechtlichen Grundlagen bei der Veranschlagung...

In an period of heightened concern about fiscal consolidation in the Euro zone, a politically expedient way of dealing with the situation is to cut public investment. A critical question, however, is whether or not political expediency comes at a cost, in terms of both long-term economic...

The monetary and fiscal policy interactions have gained a new research interest after the 2008 crisis due to the global increase of fiscal debt. This paper constructs a macroeconomic model of joint fiscal and monetary policy for an emerging open economy taking into account its structural...

This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...