2019
DOI: 10.22201/fe.01851667p.2019.309.70121
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Productivity and Effective Demand: Assessing the Disaggregate Public Spending

Abstract: <p>In this paper, we attempt to support the argument regarding the endogeneity of productivity to effective demand. Unlike most of the works on the topic, we focus on the role that both public investment and public consumption have on productivity. We suggest, at the theoretical level, that public investment has unambiguously positive effects on productivity, whereas the effect of public consumption is ambiguous, being not necessarily large or positive. Our econometric results, using data of selected Lat… Show more

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“…Now, in the long term, government investment affects productivity positively (see, e.g., Aschauer, 1989; Galstyan & Lane, 2009a; International Monetary Fund, 2014; OECD, 2016; Pressman, 1994; Zavaleta & Cruz, 2019). For example, health‐care and educational expenditures are likely to generate a healthier and more educated labor force, affecting their productivity positively.…”
Section: The Ambiguous Relationship Between Disaggregated Public Spending and Exchange Ratementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Now, in the long term, government investment affects productivity positively (see, e.g., Aschauer, 1989; Galstyan & Lane, 2009a; International Monetary Fund, 2014; OECD, 2016; Pressman, 1994; Zavaleta & Cruz, 2019). For example, health‐care and educational expenditures are likely to generate a healthier and more educated labor force, affecting their productivity positively.…”
Section: The Ambiguous Relationship Between Disaggregated Public Spending and Exchange Ratementioning
confidence: 99%