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Industrial dynamics and the neolclassical growth model.

Allocating Government Education Expenditures across K-12 and College Education.

Labor Market Trends with Balanced Growth.

Tax Reform with Useful Public Expenditures.

The Transition from Dirty to Clean Industries: Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth.

Growth Effects of Shifting from a Graduated- Rate Tax System to a Flat Tax.

Fiscal Policy and Productivity Growth in the OECD.

Uniform Two-Part Tariffs and Below Marginal Cost Prices: Disneyland Revisited.

Optimal Fiscal Policy, Public Capital, and the Productivity Slowdown.

On Public Capital Analysis with State Data.

The Link Between Tax Rates and Foreign Direct Investment.

Welfare, Stabilization or Growth: A Comparison of Different Fiscal Objectives.

Equivalence of the Standard and Modified Switching Regression Models.

A Normative Analysis of Public Capital.

Optimal Tax Rules in a Dynamic Stochastic Economy with Capital.

A Diagnostic Test Without Numerical Integration.

Backward Solving Quarterly Models with Seasonal or Annual Shocks.

Health Plan Choice and the Utilization of Health Care Services.

The Demand for Employment-Based Health Insurance Plans.

Employment Based Health Insurance.

 

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Optimal Fiscal Policy, Public Capital, and the Productivity Slowdown.

With Kevin J. Lansing, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 1998, Vol. 22, 911-935.

Abstract: This paper develops a quantitative theoretical model for the optimal provision of public capital. We show that the ratio of public to private capital in the US economy since 1925 evolves in a manner that is broadly consistent with an optimal transition path derived from a simple growth model. The model is used to quantify the conditions under which an increase in the stock of public capital is desirable and to investigate the degree to which nonoptimal fiscal policies can account for the US productivity slowdown.