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investment and output also raises the public capital depreciation rate and reduces public capital accumulation due to increased … expenditures between 'new' public investment and maintenance and hence avoid excessive taxation that is required under increasing …
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The role of fiscal policy is examined when public goods provide both productive and utility services. In the presence of congestion, the consumption tax is shown to be distortionary. Optimal fiscal policy involves using consumption-based instruments in conjunction with the income tax. An income...
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The paper examines the politics of infrastructure in the post-privatisation era. It shows the tensions between the interests of private investors and the expectations of the citizenry for the assembly of a raft of capital assets that collectively underpin the operation of liveable sustainable...
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We analyze within a dynamic model how firms decide on capital investment if the accompanying adjustment costs are a … and investment ratio are both constant, carry out comparative dynamic analysis and discuss the model's policy implications. …
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and risk premiums. To explain the empirical findings, we extend the neoclassical q-theory model of investment and specify …High rates of government investment in public sector capital forecast high risk premiums both at the aggregate and firm …-level. This result is in sharp contrast with the well-documented negative relationship between the private sector investment rate …
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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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This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...
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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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