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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973351003321

Autore

Roache Shaun

Titolo

Domestic Investment and the Cost of Capital in the Caribbean / / Shaun Roache

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613821966

9781462368976

1462368972

9781452735009

145273500X

9781282541252

1282541250

9781452703398

1452703396

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (46 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Investments - Caribbean Area

Capital costs - Caribbean Area

Banks and Banking

Capacity

Capital

Finance

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Intangible Capital

Interest rates

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Investment & securities

Investment

Investments: General

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Other Public Investment and Capital Stock

Pension Funds

Private investment

Public finance & taxation



Public Finance

Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)

Public investment spending

Public investments

Public-private sector cooperation

Real interest rates

Saving and investment

Stocks

Trinidad and Tobago

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. TRENDS IN REGIONAL INVESTMENT 6""; ""III. LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""IV. A BASIC INVESTMENT MODEL""; ""V. DATA""; ""VI. ESTIMATION ISSUES""; ""VII. ESTIMATION RESULTS""; ""VIII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""Data Sources and Estimates ""

Sommario/riassunto

Investment-to-GDP ratios across the Caribbean tend to be relatively high. In many countries, these ratios have been trending higher since the mid-1990s, largely reflecting public investment and foreign direct investment. Private domestic investors have been less prominent. This may be one reason why such high investment has delivered Caribbean growth rates below the middle-income average. This paper seeks to understand how higher private investment may be encouraged. Using new data, it concludes that: the multiplier effects of public investment and FDI on private domestic investment are weak; and private domestic investment (PDI) is sensitive to the cost of capital. Public policy designed to raise PDI should focus on creating conditions for a lower cost of capital. The focus should be on removing barriers to lower real interest rates, rather than the further extension of costly tax concessions.