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Animal Spirits and Public Production in Slow Growth Economies

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  • Stefano Bosi

    (EPEE, University of Evry)

  • Carine Nourry

    (GREQAM, University of Aix-Marseille II)

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In this paper, we consider a discrete time version of the endogenous growth model developed by Barro [1], but augmented in order to consider public production. Policy solutions are characterized to maximize the social welfare and stabilize the economy. More intervention is required under a higher elasticity of intertemporal substitution, because the public good is a productive externality. As soon as the growth rate of the economy lowers, indeterminacy can be generated by higher degrees of private production, and, then, even a small proportion of public production can have a stabilizing effect. Moreover, the way the public dividends are used matters for the stability properties of the economy: public dividends are used to provide flows of public services and/or long-run infrastructures. According to the value of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution and the proportion of public and private production, a higher share of public dividends used to install infrastructures can stabilize the economy. Endogenous fluctuations are possible within the model for plausible calibrations.

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  • Stefano Bosi & Carine Nourry, 2005. "Animal Spirits and Public Production in Slow Growth Economies," Documents de recherche 05-16, Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne.
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    Keywords

    public spending; growth cycles; sunspots;
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    JEL classification:

    • N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods

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