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accumulating public capital and its associated public investment path in a perfect foresight general equilibrium model. The model … has several specific features different from the existing frameworks: The policy rule for public capital is introduced … be capital-intensive with its FDI shock. Based on calibration for African countries, the study finds that the front …
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the Philippines relative to its neighbors in terms of level of public capital and quality of public infrastructure, and …
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importance of public capital for long run output growth has changed in recent years. We also aim to provide information on the … relevance of international spillovers of public capital. To these ends, we expand time series on public capital stocks for 20 … public capital shocks on economic growth has not increased in general, although results differ widely between countries. This …
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This paper explores the macroeconomic effects of improving public infrastructure in the Philippines, modeling the infrastructure scale-up plan being implemented by the current administration. After benchmarking the Philippines' level of infrastructure investment, quantity and quality of public...
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The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical … analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a … - recognizing that investment may be a poor proxy for the corresponding capital stock. This paper attempts to overcome the data …
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In this paper, we estimate the aggregate and sectoral fiscal multipliers of EU Structural Investment (ESI) Funds and of public investment at the EU level. We complement these results with a specific application to the case of Slovenia. We first analyze aggregate data and find large and...
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The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of attention recently, yet empirical … analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …-recognizing that investment may be a poor proxy for the corresponding capital stock. This paper attempts to overcome the data shortage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005142036
in investment results in a smaller capital stock, potential output or production capacity decreases. The author …
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In this paper we use a vector autoregressive approach to analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance using a newly developed data set for Portugal. We find that investments in other transportation infrastructures – railroads, ports and airports – and social...
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In this paper we analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance in Portugal using a newly developed data set. We employ a vector autoregressive approach to estimate the elasticity and marginal products of investments on twelve different types of infrastructure...
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