Arbeitspapier

Fiscal rules and public investment

This paper examines the link between fiscal rules and public investment both normatively and empirically. We first review the arguments for and against including public investment spending in a fiscal deficit rule. We then seek to assess the determinants of public investment, with a special focus on the role of the fiscal rules embodied in EMU. We conclude that there are practical difficulties precluding the introduction of a 'golden rule' and that there is virtually no evidence that EMU would have affected public investment. Therefore, the focus on safeguarding the level of public investment is somewhat misplaced; instead, one should focus on safeguarding its productivity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Economic and Financial Report ; No. 2005/02

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Perée, Eric
Välilä, Timo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Investment Bank (EIB)
(wo)
Luxembourg
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Perée, Eric
  • Välilä, Timo
  • European Investment Bank (EIB)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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