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Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus

By Susan S. Yang, Todd B. Walker, Eric M. Leeper

October 1, 2010

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Susan S. Yang, Todd B. Walker, and Eric M. Leeper Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Effects of government investment are studied in an estimated neoclassical growth model. The analysis focuses on two dimensions that are critical for understanding government investment as a fiscal stimulus: implementation delays for building public capital and expected fiscal adjustments to deficit-financed spending. Implementation delays can produce small or even negative labor and output responses to increases in government investment in the short run. Anticipated fiscal adjustments matter both quantitatively and qualitatively for long-run growth effects. When public capital is insufficiently productive, distorting financing can make government investment contractionary at longer horizons.

Subject: Capital productivity, Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Government consumption, National accounts, Production, Public investment spending

Keywords: Capital productivity, Consumption multiplier, Depreciation rate, DGSE Bayesian Estimation, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal stimulus, Government consumption, Government investment, Government investment project, Government investment shock, Government spending multiplier, Implementation delays, Investment multiplier, Multiplier change, Output multiplier, Present-value investment multiplier, Public investment spending, Wealth effect, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/229

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010229

  • ISBN:

    9781455208944

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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