Arbeitspapier

On the relationship between public and private investment in the euro area

This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques accounting for international spillovers are employed. While private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows. They enter a long run relationship only after fundamental drivers of private investment, such as demand and financing costs are included. According to the impulse response analysis, private investment reacts to shocks in public investment both in terms of stock and flow variables. In contrast, public investment is rather exogenous. Therefore, the lack of public investment might have restricted private investment and GDP growth in the euro area. The results have strong implications for the future direction of fiscal austerity programs to combat the euro area debt crisis.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 344

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Fiscal Policy
Thema
public and private investment
fiscal austerity
panel VAR

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dreger, Christian
Reimers, Hans-Eggert
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics
(wo)
Frankfurt (Oder)
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dreger, Christian
  • Reimers, Hans-Eggert
  • European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics

Entstanden

  • 2014

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