Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93370 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8002
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows. They enter a long run relationship only after fundamental drivers of private investment, such as demand and financing costs are included. According to the impulse response analysis, private investment reacts to shocks in public investment both in terms of stock and flow variables. In contrast, public investment is rather exogenous. Therefore, the lack of public investment might have restricted private investment and GDP growth in the euro area. The results have strong implications for the future direction of fiscal austerity programs to combat the euro area debt crisis.
Subjects: 
public and private investment
fiscal austerity
panel VAR
JEL: 
C23
E22
E62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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