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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences

   Aizenman, Pinto and Kletzer · National Bureau of Economic Research · 2007

   The paper models optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries with limited tax and debt capacity, and asks how borrowing should be used for recurring spending versus public infrastructure.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' growth model, borrowing to fund recurring public spending would raise public debt and so lower welfare and the growth rate.“Although the flow of public expenditure raises productivity, the government should not borrow to finance it as the resulting increase in public debt would lower welfare and the growth rate.”
   2. Unchecked“With a binding tax capacity constraint, if the ration of the initial public/private sector stock of capital is smaller than the sustainable balanced growth ratio, the optimal policy for the government is to purchase public capital, financed by debt, to immed…
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's model, with a binding debt limit or solvency-constrained borrowing, a more patient country grows faster but has a lower public-to-private capital ratio.“With either a binding exogenous debt limit or solvency constrained borrowing, a more patient country will have a higher steady-state growth rate but a lower steady-state public-to-private capital ratio.”