Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45279 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Economic and Financial Report No. 2005/01
Publisher: 
European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
We examine the evolution of public investment and public capital stocks in Europe during the past three decades. Against this background, we employ an array of econometric techniques to assess the macroeconomic determinants of public investment, with a special focus on its long-term trend. We find that public investment has been determined by national income, the stance of budgetary policies, and fiscal sustainability considerations. Neither the cost of financing nor the fiscal rules embodied in EMU have had a systemic impact on public investment. The significant downtrend that characterises the evolution of public investment, measured in relation to GDP, in non-cohesion countries is chiefly determined by drawn-out episodes of fiscal consolidation, unrelated to EMU.
JEL: 
E62
H54
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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