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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786482903321

Autore

Gelb Alan

Titolo

Resource Windfalls, Optimal Public Investment and Redistribution : : The Role of Total Factor Productivity and Administrative Capacity / / Alan Gelb, Arnaud Dupuy, Rabah Arezki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-8712-0

1-4755-2152-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

DupuyArnaud

ArezkiRabah

Soggetti

Factors of production - Econometric models

Rate of return

Investments: Stocks

Public Finance

Production and Operations Management

Natural Resources

Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General

International Lending and Debt Problems

Efficiency

Optimal Taxation

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures

Other Public Investment and Capital Stock

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Public finance & taxation

Environmental management

Macroeconomics

Investment & securities

Public investment spending



Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)

Natural resources

Total factor productivity

Stocks

Expenditure

Environment

Financial institutions

Public investments

Public-private sector cooperation

Industrial productivity

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Existing Theoretical Frameworks; III. A Simple Model of Public Investment; A. Model Set-up; B. Discussion of Results; IV. An Extension of The Model with Endogenous Investment in Administrative Capacity; V. Policy implications; References; Appendixes; Appendix 1: Parametric Specification; Appendix 2: Parametric Specification of the Extended Model; Figures; Figure 1. Share of Natural Capital around the World; Figure 2. Public Management Index by Sub-Groups; Figure 3. Investor Protection Index; Figure 4. Non-Resource Sector Total Factor Productivity

Figure 5. Public Investment Management Index and Non-resource Sector Total Factor Figure 6. Resource Windfall, Consumption and Foreign Debt under the Permanent; Figure 7. Evolution of Wages, Resource Windfalls and Sovereign Debt; Figure 8. Evolution of the Stock of Public Capital under Different Scenarios; Figure 9. Evolution of Wages under Different Scenarios; Figure 10. Evolution of Private Consumption under Different Scenarios; Figure 11. Evolution of the Stock of Public Capital under Different Scenarios; Figure 12. Evolution of the Stock of Private Capital under Different Scenarios

Figure 13. Private Consumption under Different Scenarios

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies the optimal public investment decisions in countries experiencing a resource windfall. To do so, we use an augmented version of the Permanent Income framework with public investment faced with adjustment costs capturing the associated administrative capacity as well as government direct transfers. A key assumption is that those adjustment costs rise with the size of the resource windfall. The main results from the analytical model are threefold. First, a larger resource windfall commands a lower level of public capital but a higher level of redistribution through transfers. Second, weaker administrative capacity lowers the increase in optimal public capital following a resource windfall. Third, higher total factor productivity in the non-resource sector reduces the degree of des-investment in public capital commanded by weaker administrative capacity. We further extend our basic model to allow for "investing in investing" - that is public investment in administrative capacity - by endogenizing the adjustment cost in public investment. Results from the numerical



simulations suggest, among other things, that a higher initial stock of public administrative "know how" leads to a higher level of optimal public investment following a resource windfall. Implications for policy are discussed.