The causes of growth in East Asia remain controversial despite substantial empirical research. In this paper I adopt the neoclassical growth model as the maintained hypothesis, and decompose growth into the exogenous variables of the neoclassical model. It is shown that the role of increased...

There is a long literature examining the theoretical relationships between the rate of inflation and the size of the capital stock in an economy. This literature has produced varied predictions about the effects of inflation on the capital stock. In this paper, we present some new empirical...

In this paper we provide a test of whether an optimal level of public investment has been undertaken in Australia over the last three decades The test is based on the intertemporal efficiency conditions for the standard optimal growth model with both private and public capital.

This paper exemines the relationship between public and business investment in Canada using a bivariate structural VAR identified using long-run restrictions.