新增长理论中的公共投资：研究综述

在新增长理论的视角下,一些传统上被视为公共消费的支出,如政府在教育、研究开发以及法制建设等领域的支出,更适合于看作是具有生产性的公共投资。基于此,一系列新增长模型隐含地或明确地分析了公共投资同经济增长之间的理论关系,突出强调了公共投资的生产性质及其同私人部门投资的互补性。同时,大量的实证研究对新增长模型的理论预言进行了检验。新增长理论的进展为解释公共投资与经济增长之间的关系提供了新的视角、新的工具和新的见解,对于中国的经济学研究和政策制定均具有启发意义。

A General Review of the Public Investment in the Context of the New Growth Theory

The government expenditure in education,R&D and the maintenance of legal system,which was traditionally taken as public consumption,is better to be seen as public investment from the view of the new growth theory.Based on this,a huge volume of the new growth models have analyzed the relationship between public investment and economic growth and have put emphasis on the output-enhancing property and the complementation with private investment of public investment.There have also been many empirical studies t...