Linking Public Investment to Private Investment. The Case of Spanish Regions

Diego Martínez

International Review of Applied Economics, 2006, vol. 20, issue 4, 411-423

Abstract: Public investment constitutes one of the main instruments of regional policies. The existence of a direct link between infrastructure and regional income per capita is usually accepted. Literature also describes a positive effect of public investment on private capital accumulation. This paper seeks to provide new empirical evidence on this latter relationship for the case of Spanish regions over the period 1965-1997 using panel data methodology. The results show a positive effect of productive and social public investment (especially in education) on private investment. The spillover effects generated by the productive infrastructures located in other regions do not seem to encourage the private investment in neighbouring regions. Public consumption and interest rate exert a negative influence on private capital accumulation. These results are robust to changes in the econometric specification.

Keywords: Crowding-out; regional economics; investment; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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