Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Shantayanan Devarajan, Danyang Xie and Heng-Fu Zou ()
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Abstract: In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We show that if the government provides the good, the resulting growth rate and welfare may or may not be higher than under laissez-faire. By contrast, if the government subsidizes private providers, not only are growth and welfare higher than under public provision, they are also unambiguously higher than under laissez-faire. Forthcoming 1998. Journal of Monetary Economics.

Keywords: Public Capital; Subsidy; Taxes; Public Provision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H2 H4 H5 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2002-12-11
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Working Paper: Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided? (1999)
Journal Article: Should public capital be subsidized or provided? (1998)
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