Evaluating short- and long-term effectiveness of capital expenditure in the subnational governments: evidence from US states Online publication date: Mon, 13-Aug-2018
by Sungchan Kim
International Journal of Economics and Business Research (IJEBR), Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018
Abstract: Over the decades, the importance of capital expenditure has been increasingly discussed because capital expenditure can increase the capacity or efficiency of an organisation in both the short- and the long-term. However, few previous studies have focused on the effectiveness of capital expenditure on economic growth at the subnational level, such as that of state governments in the USA. Thus, in this paper, I investigate whether capital expenditure in US state governments is effective in terms of economic growth. In addition, this paper aims to examine the effectiveness of capital expenditure in both the short and the long-term. The empirical results suggest that capital expenditure has a positive impact on economic growth in the short and the medium term. Therefore, for subnational governments such as state governments in the USA, increase in capital expenditure is an influential fiscal tool for economic growth.
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