Private Costs and Public Infrastructure : The Mexican Case /

One objective of government investment is to develop public infrastructure which may reduce private sector costs. In a developing economy, the scope for payoffs to investments of this sort may be particularly large. A major concern related to the recent fiscal adjustment in Mexico is that it has bee...

Disgrifiad llawn

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Murphy, Russell
Awduron Eraill: Feltenstein, Andrew
Fformat: Cylchgrawn
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Cyfres:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/164
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available on IMF
LEADER 01835cas a2200253 a 4500
001 AALejournalIMF001736
008 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d
020 |c 5.00 USD 
020 |z 9781451857993 
022 |a 1018-5941 
040 |a BD-DhAAL  |c BD-DhAAL 
100 1 |a Murphy, Russell. 
245 1 0 |a Private Costs and Public Infrastructure :   |b The Mexican Case /  |c Russell Murphy, Andrew Feltenstein. 
264 1 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b International Monetary Fund,  |c 2001. 
300 |a 1 online resource (35 pages) 
490 1 |a IMF Working Papers 
500 |a <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
500 |a <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
506 |a Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 
520 3 |a One objective of government investment is to develop public infrastructure which may reduce private sector costs. In a developing economy, the scope for payoffs to investments of this sort may be particularly large. A major concern related to the recent fiscal adjustment in Mexico is that it has been carried out, in part, by depleting public infrastructure stocks.We estimate the effects of public infrastructure on private sector costs in Mexico and calculate the implied optimal infrastructure stocks. Our estimates indicate that previous results suggesting a large productive role of public infrastructure capital are not robust. There is little evidence that public infrastructure plays a large role in reducing private sector costs. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet 
700 1 |a Feltenstein, Andrew. 
830 0 |a IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;  |v No. 2001/164 
856 4 0 |z Full text available on IMF  |u http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2001/164/001.2001.issue-164-en.xml  |z IMF e-Library