The Effects of Public Investment on Sustainable Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Emerging Countries in Central and Eastern Europe

Andreea Ocolișanu, Gabriela Dobrotă and Dan Dobrotă
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Andreea Ocolișanu: Romanian Court of Accounts, Sibiu Chamber of Accounts, 550370 Sibiu, Romania
Gabriela Dobrotă: Faculty of Economics, “Constantin Brâncusi” University of Targu Jiu, 210185 Târgu Jiu, Romania
Dan Dobrotă: Faculty of Engineering, “Lucian Blaga” University, 550024 Sibiu, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: The relationship between sustainable growth and public investment, considered one of the key factors, is a topic of interest in the context of globally adopted sustainable development strategies and current budgetary constraints, especially in the case of tight budgets in developing countries, which constrain public investment more than current expenditure, for political or other reasons. Although there are endogenous growth patterns that incorporate public spending as a factor that promotes growth, the findings in the empirical literature provide contradictory results. The study is an empirical investigation into the effects of public investment on sustainable economic growth in emerging EU and Central European countries. For the period 1995–2019, the research shows that, in most of the countries included in the sample, the long-term impact of a public capital shock on GDP is estimated to be negative. The analysis of the effect of public investment on sustainable economic growth was performed by applying the VAR model and impulse response functions, the results being confirmed by estimating the accumulated multiplier to obtain the GDP response to a shock equal to a standard deviation of public capital.

Keywords: sustainable development; public investment; VAR model; impulse response function; GDP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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