Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships

By Edward F Buffie, Michele Andreolli, Grace B Li, Luis-Felipe Zanna

March 24, 2016

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Edward F Buffie, Michele Andreolli, Grace B Li, and Luis-Felipe Zanna. Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

The voluminous literature comparing public-private partnerships (P3s) and own-investment (OI) by the public sector is dominated by contributions from microeconomic theory. This paper gives macroeconomics a voice in the debate by investigating the repercussions of P3 vs. OI in a dynamic general equilibrium model featuring private capital accumulation and involuntary unemployment with efficiency wages. Typically P3s cost more but produce higher-quality infrastructure and boast a better on-time completion record than OI; consequently, they are comparatively more effective in reducing underinvestment in private capital, underinvestment in infrastructure, unemployment and poverty. The asymmetric impact on macro externalities raises the social return in the P3 2 - 9 percentage points relative to the social return to OI, depending on whether the externalities operate singly or in combination and on whether P3 enjoys an advantage in speed of construction.

Subject: Employment, Infrastructure, Labor, National accounts, Real wages, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Direct return, Employment, Infrastructure, Infrastructure investment, Involuntary unemployment, National budget, Production function, Public-private Partnerships, Real wages, Underinvestment, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wage curve, Wages, Welfare gain, Welfare., WP

Publication Details

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49
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Working Paper No. 2016/078
Stock No:

WPIEA2016078
ISBN:

9781484307700
ISSN:

1018-5941

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