Public Debt, Public Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico
Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 32310 Chihuahua, Mexico
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Int. J. Financial Stud. 2016, 4(2), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs4020006
Received: 12 December 2015 / Revised: 18 March 2016 / Accepted: 21 March 2016 / Published: 30 March 2016
The primary objective of this article is to answer the following two research questions: has the growing public debt of state governments promoted increased public investment? If the answer is yes, then does any increase in public investment lead to more growth in the Mexican states? Dynamic Models of panel data and the Generalized Method of Moments, with information for 32 states from 1993 to 2012, were used for this purpose. The econometric results confirmed that public debt is positively correlated with public investment and that this in turn generates economic growth. This does not mean that a good economic policy strategy has been followed, since the marginal positive impact of public investment, and therefore the public debt on the production per person, is reduced (1% increase in the interaction between public investment and public debt variable causes a 0.0005% increase in economic growth). This suggests deviations from the debt contracted for purposes other than production, which could lead to a situation of unsustainability of state public finances in the medium term.
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Keywords:
Mexico; economic growth; public finance; development
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Sánchez-Juárez, I.; García-Almada, R. Public Debt, Public Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico. Int. J. Financial Stud. 2016, 4, 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs4020006
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Sánchez-Juárez I, García-Almada R. Public Debt, Public Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico. International Journal of Financial Studies. 2016; 4(2):6. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs4020006
Chicago/Turabian StyleSánchez-Juárez, Isaac; García-Almada, Rosa. 2016. "Public Debt, Public Investment and Economic Growth in Mexico" Int. J. Financial Stud. 4, no. 2: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs4020006
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