The Public Investment Multipliers: Evidence from Stock Returns of Narrowly Defined Industry in Japan

Nobuyuki Kanazawa and 伸幸 金澤

No HIAS-E-66, Discussion paper series from Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper provides an evidence on the macroeconomic impacts of public investment. I extract public investment news shocks from the excess return of narrowly defined road pavement firms in Japan and use them as an instrument for future government spending. I found that the extracted news shocks predict the future government spending through changes in future public investment. The result shows that the public investment multiplier is 1.64 a year after the shock and about 5 after four years, which is considerably larger than fiscal multipliers estimated in previous studies. The findings highlight the importance of the types of government spending, in addition to the amount of the spending, in determining the overall effects of countercyclical fiscal policies.

Keywords: Fiscal multiplier; Stock returns; Public Investment; Infrastructure; Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E62 H54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2018-03
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