Public expenditure and international specialisation
Marius Brülhart and
Federico Trionfetti
No 141, HWWA Discussion Papers from Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
Abstract:
It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector for which it has relatively large home-biased procurement (the "pull" effect). Second, home-biased procurement can counter agglomeration forces and thereby attenuate the overall degree of international specialisation (the "spread" effect). Our empirical analysis, conducted on input-output data for the European Union, yields supporting evidence for the pull effect and some support for the spread effect.
Keywords: public expenditure; international specialisation; economic geography; European Union; input-output analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 H5 R15 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/19410/1/141.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
Working Paper: Public Expenditure and International Specialisation (2001) 
Working Paper: Public Expenditure and International Specialisation (2000) 
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:hwwadp:26299
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in HWWA Discussion Papers from Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().