TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dreger, Christian
AU  - Reimers, Hans-Eggert
        TI  - On the Relationship between Public and Private Investment in the Euro Area
        PY  - 2014/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8002
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8002
        AB  - This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the evidence is quite fragile for public and private investment flows. They enter a long run relationship only after fundamental drivers of private investment, such as demand and financing costs are included. According to the impulse response analysis, private investment reacts to shocks in public investment both in terms of stock and flow variables. In contrast, public investment is rather exogenous. Therefore, the lack of public investment might have restricted private investment and GDP growth in the euro area. The results have strong implications for the future direction of fiscal austerity programs to combat the euro area debt crisis.
        KW  - public and private investment
KW  - fiscal austerity
KW  - panel VAR
        ER  -