The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies. To this end, the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment. Estimations using local projections based on a large sample of 129 countries over 1980–2019 suggest that public investment can significantly boost economic growth: an increase in public investment by 1 percent of...
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2024/10/22
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS10954
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1
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2024/10/22
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Disclosed
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Revisiting Public Investment Multipliers : Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Efficiency, and Capital Stock