Bhatt Hakhu, Antra, Piergallini, Alessandro and Scaramozzino, Pasquale (2014) Public Capital Expenditure and Debt Dynamics: Evidence from the European Union. London: Centre for Financial and Management Studies (CeFiMS).
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Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between public capital expenditure and public debt in the European Union (EU), relying on a panel of fifteen countries over the sample period 1980-2013. We find robust evidence of a negative cointegrating relation, according to which increases in the capital expenditure-GDP ratio cause reductions in the debt-GDP ratio in the long run. Our empirical results suggest that current EU fiscal austerity can trigger upward debt spirals if cuts in total expenditure disregard its composition. Consistently with the “golden rule of public finance”, EU fiscal rules should allow for higher levels of capital expenditure in order to foster debt consolidation through growth dividends.
| Item Type: | Monographs and Working Papers (Working Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Fiscal sustainability, EU, panel cointegration, public expenditure, public debt |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Finance and Management Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Finance and Management > Centre for Financial and Management Studies (CeFiMS) |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2014 10:36 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/18819 |
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