Titre : | Debt policy rule, productive government spending, and multiple growth paths: a note (2013) |
Auteurs : | Alexandru Minea ; Patrick Villieu |
Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
Dans : | Macroeconomic Dynamics (Vol.17 n°4, June 2013) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 947-954 |
Langues: | Français |
Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > situation économique > développement économique > croissance économique [Eurovoc] FINANCES > finances publiques et politique budgétaire > dette publique > emprunt public [Eurovoc] FINANCES > investissement et financement > investissement > investissement public |
Tags : | deficit ; public investment ; public debt ; endogenous growth ; multiplicity |
Résumé : | In a very interesting endogenous growth model, Futagami, Iwaisako, and Ohdoi [Macroeconomic Dynamics 12 (2008), 445-462] study the long-run growth effect of borrowing for public investment. Their model exhibits (i) the ltiplicity of balanced growth paths (BGPs) in the long run (two steady states) and (ii) a possible indeterminacy of the transition path to the high-growth BGP. The goal of this note is to show that their results depend on a sharp assumption, namely the definition of the public debt target as a ratio to private capital. If the target is defined in terms of public debt-to-GDP ratio, both results vanish: the model exhibits a unique BGP (no multiplicity) and the adjustment path to this unique equilibrium is determinate (no indeterminacy). |
Doi : | DOI : 10.1017/S1365100511000642 |
Axe de recherche : | Financement du développement |
En ligne : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00829552 |