Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model /

This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption. From the modeling point of view, the paper augments a standard New Open Economy Macroeconomics (N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganelli, Giovanni
Other Authors: Tervala, Juha
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/067
Online Access:Full text available on IMF