Arbeitspapier

Public infrastructures, public consumption and welfare in a new open economy macro model

This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption in a two-country model. The results show that a permanent increase in the domestic stock of public capital financed by a reduction in public consumption raises domestic welfare if the productivity of public capital is high and the weight of public consumption in private utility is low compared with private consumption. The effect on foreign welfare is negative in the short run, but positive in the long run. This implies that, if foreign authorities care not only about the present discounted value of welfare but also about welfare dynamics, a permanent domestic reallocation of public spending might result in a virtuous global technological cycle.

ISBN
978-952-462-497-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers ; No. 8/2009

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Publicly Provided Private Goods
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Thema
public spending composition
welfare
imperfect competition
nominal rigidities

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ganelli, Giovanni
Tervala, Juha
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Finland
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ganelli, Giovanni
  • Tervala, Juha
  • Bank of Finland

Entstanden

  • 2009

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