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Public Capital and Economic Growth: a Spurious Empirical Link?

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Fiscal Policy in the European Union

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Assessing the factors underlying long-run economic growth is one of the most important issues of applied macroeconomics. And whereas the role of fiscal policy is still in debate among economists, there is general agreement about the key role played by one of its spending items, namely public investment.

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  1. Gwenaëlle Poilon
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

    Jesús Ferreiro (Associate Professor in Economics) & Felipe Serrano (Professor in Economics) (Associate Professor in Economics) &  (Professor in Economics)

  2. University of Leeds, UK

    Giuseppe Fontana (Professor of Monetary Economics, Associate Professor) (Professor of Monetary Economics, Associate Professor)

  3. Università del Sannio, Italy

    Giuseppe Fontana (Professor of Monetary Economics, Associate Professor) (Professor of Monetary Economics, Associate Professor)

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Poilon, G. (2008). Public Capital and Economic Growth: a Spurious Empirical Link?. In: Ferreiro, J., Fontana, G., Serrano, F. (eds) Fiscal Policy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228269_6

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