Resumen: desde el año 2000, el comportamiento de las finanzas públicas deMedellín ha venido mostrando una tendencia positiva escalando en la posición del ranking realizado por el Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP), lo que le ha permitido localizarse en el primer lugar dentro de las...

This paper presents and analyzes an endogenous growth model with public capital and progressive taxation. Two versions are considered: The first version assumes that the budget of the government is balanced at each point of time. The second allows for public debt but asserts that the ratio of...

Since the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Thailand has become highly dependent on export as the engine of economic recovery and growth. In 2008, the ratio of export to gross domestic product (GDP) was 76.5%. The global economic crisis triggered by the sub-prime loans debacle in the United States...

For the past generation Norway has supplied Europe and other regions with oil, taking payment in euros or dollars. It then sends nearly all this foreign exchange abroad, sequestering its oil-export receipts—which are in foreign currency—in the "oil fund," to invest mainly in European and US...

This paper examines the relationship among deficit-financing fiscal policy, risk and economic growth in a stochastic endogenous growth model with private and public capital. We show that there are positive balanced-growth rate and a debt-to-GDP ratio that depend on deep parameters such as the...

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...

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...

En este documento se presenta una descripción de las características y los aspectos más importantes del componente de inversión del Presupuesto General de la Nación. Se analiza el destino y distribución de los recursos, las interrelaciones entre el marco normativo y el proceso de...

In der Debatte um die Schuldenbremse bildet sich zunehmend ein Konsens für eine Reform heraus. Zuletzt versuchten Feld et al. (2024) den häufig vorgetragenen Kritikpunkt zu entkräfteten, die Schuldenbremse behindere staatliche Investitionen. Die verwendete synthetische Kontrollmethode...

In der Debatte um die Schuldenbremse bildet sich zunehmend ein Konsens für eine Reform heraus. Zuletzt versuchten Feld et al. (2024) den häufig vorgetragenen Kritikpunkt zu entkräfteten, die Schuldenbremse behindere staatliche Investitionen. Die verwendete synthetische Kontrollmethode...