02104cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004831 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451866315 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ganelli, Giovanni. Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model / Giovanni Ganelli, Juha Tervala. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption. From the modeling point of view, the paper augments a standard New Open Economy Macroeconomics (NOEM) model by introducing productive public infrastructures. The results show that a temporary increase in the domestic stock of public capital financed by a reduction in public consumption reduces domestic welfare in the short run because the temporary gains from higher productivity do not compensate domestic residents for the utility loss due to lower public consumption. If the policy shift is permanent domestic utility is likely to increase, while foreign residents suffer short-run welfare losses but benefit from welfare gains in the long run. This analysis implies that a permanent domestic reallocation of public spending might result in a virtuous global technological cycle. Mode of access: Internet Tervala, Juha. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/067 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2007/067/001.2007.issue-067-en.xml IMF e-Library