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Public Expenditure and International Specialisation

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  • Marius BRÜLHART
  • Federico TRIONFETTI

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We study the impact of home-biased public expenditure on international specialisation in general equilibrium models with increasing returns and monopolistic competition. It is found that home-biased procurement attracts increasing-returns industries to the home country (the "pull" effect) and attenuates the overall degree of industrial specialisation (the "spread" effect). Empirical evidence based on input-output data for the European Union confirms the existence of these links between public expenditure and the location of manufacturing activities.

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Paper provided by Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, DEEP in its series Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie politique (DEEP) with number 00.23.

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Length: 43 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2000
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Publication status: Published in European Economic Review, vol. 48 (4), August 2004, pp. 851-881
Handle: RePEc:lau:crdeep:00.23

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Keywords: public expenditure; international specialisation; economic geography; European Union; input-output analysis;

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  1. Brülhart, Marius & Trionfetti, Federico, 2005. "A Test of Trade Theories when Expenditure is Home Biased," CEPR Discussion Papers 5097, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Pablo Sanguinetti & Iulia Traistaru & Christian Volpe Martincus, 2004. "Economic Integration and Location of Manufacturing Activities: Evidence from Mercosur," ERSA conference papers ersa04p609, European Regional Science Association.
  3. Maria Garcia-Alonso & Paul Levine, 2004. "Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0904, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
  4. Federico Trionfetti, 2012. "Public Debt and Economic Geography," AMSE Working Papers 1223, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Marseille, France.
  5. Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz, 2005. "Fiscal Design and the Location of Economic Activity," ERSA conference papers ersa05p539, European Regional Science Association.
  6. Federica Calidoni, 2004. "Aggregate and Disaggregate Analysis of the Effects of Government Expenditure on Growth," Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 160, Economic Studies, University of Dundee.

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