The Impact of Government Spending on Economic Diversification for the Period (2004-2019) and its Reflection on the Path of Rehabilitation of the Iraqi Economy

The research aims to measure and analyze the relationship between government spending and economic diversification in Iraq for the period (2004-2019), using the ARDL model. The research concluded that there is a long-term positive equilibrium relationship between investment spending and economic diversification in Iraq. When investment spending increases by (1%), this will lead to an increase in economic diversification by (0.23%), assuming that operating spending is stable, and the opposite happens in the case of decline. In addition to the existence of a long-term inverse equilibrium relationship between operating spending and economic diversification in Iraq, as an increase in operating spending by (1%) will lead to a decrease in economic diversification by (0.73%), assuming the stability of investment spending, and the opposite will happen in the event of decline.

Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of Investment Spending on Achieving Growth for the Real Iraqi GDP

The study aim to measurement Investment spending in economic activity Via its effect on the production of sectors of the national economy, and due to the fact that investment spending is linked to public revenues, especially petroleum, because of the economy’s direction, its direction has made investment spending allocations fluctuate with the fluctuation of these revenues and then Its weak impact on the real output in Iraq and then a weakness in achieving the real economic growth aims that are expected from this spending, as the research reached a significant weakness in the impact of investment spending on the real output with and without petroleum, as the increases did not match The big investment spending with real output growth with and without petroleum. which indicates weak efficiency and performance of the national economy in achieving the required real economic growth and a lot of use of the policy of transfer between expenditures as well as the lack of a long and short-term balance relationship between investment spending and real output with and without petroleum.

دور الإنفاق الأستثماري العام في تعزيز التحول الهيكلي للاقتصاد العراقي بعد عام 2003

This research aims to diagnose the reality of the contribution of public investment spending to the structural transformation in the Iraqi economy by using the descriptive analytical method. The weak relationship between public investment spending and structural transformation has been found as a result of weak investment allocations directed to the productive sectors that can contribute to correcting the imbalance in the production structure. On the basis of this, the research stressed the need to increase public investment spending in order to stimulate the work of the investment multiplier and accelerator, which would contribute to correcting the production structure and achieving structural transformation in the Iraqi economy

From He-Cession to She-Stimulus? The labor market impact of fiscal policy across gender

Men, especially those that are young and less educated, typically bear the brunt of recessions because of the stronger cyclicality of their employment and wages relative to women’s. We study the extent to which fiscal policy may offset or worsen these asymmetric effects across gender. Using micro-level data for the U.S. from the Current Population Survey, we find that the effects of fiscal policy shocks on labor market outcomes depend on the type of public expenditure. Women benefit most from increases in the government wage bill, while men are the main beneficiaries of higher investment spending. Our analysis further reveals that the fiscal component most efficient at closing gender gaps is least suitable for offsetting inequitable business cycle effects across other socioeconomic dimensions.

The impact of the Federal Reserve System’s interest rate channel on the components of aggregate demand

Motivation: Monetary policy decisions, through the process of transmission mechanism, affect the term structure of nominal interest rates as well as other asset prices, and thus influences aggregate demand (e.g. consumer spending and business investments) and price levels through these effects. The aspect of monetary transmission to various components of aggregate demand has been relatively little studied in the literature of the subject. Aim: The main aim of the study is to empirically investigate the effect of the Fed’s monetary policy on major components of aggregate demand over the past 35 years. To this aim, the scale and timing of the interest rate pass-through to economic activity have been examined. Results: The empirical findings showed that that between 1984 and 2019, the sensitivity of consumption and investment expenditures to interest rate impulses were different. Firstly, fixed investment spending accounted for a significant part that was responsible for the response of real GDP following an interest rate shock. Secondly, in the case of personal consumption expenditures, expenses for durable goods were more sensitive to changes in the Fed’s interest rate than spending on services and nondurable goods. In this way, the study expands the existing literature by reporting the effects of the Fed’s monetary policy on major components of aggregate demand over the past 35 years

Investment as the opportunity cost of dividend signaling

We provide evidence that dividends signal sustainable earnings generated by assets-in-place for firms with weak investment opportunities. In the cross-section, both dividend levels and changes contain more earnings information among firms with weaker investment opportunities. Intertemporally, when aggregate investment opportunities in the economy are worse, dividend changes convey more earnings information. In contrast, dividends have a more negative association with investment spending for firms with strong growth options, as funding investment is a higher priority for those firms. Collectively, our findings suggest that dividends serve as a counter-signal, whereby additional information about investment opportunities give rise to signaling that is non-monotonic in firm quality.

Measurement and Analysis of Total Local Production Effect on Investment Spending in Iraq from 1990-2018

Investment is one of the important economic activities that occupies fundamental place in the priorities of economic studies because the size of investment determines the volume of production and income and then the rate of economic growth and contributes to pushing the wheel of economic growth, so this research tries to measure the function of investment spending in the Iraqi economy during the extended period From 1990-2018, using the ARDL model, the results of this study showed that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between income and investment spending and that investment spending depends largely on income, meaning that the relationship between investment spending and income is positive, and the marginal propensity to invest is 0.13.

Determinants of Investments in Energy Sector in Poland

There is much research about the determinants of investments, but there is a shortage of similar studies for Poland. Therefore, the overall goal of the paper is to analyze the determinants of investments made by enterprises from the energy sector as well as their delays in Poland in the years 2000–2019. In this period, a strong growth of investments in energy was observed in the country. In connection to this, the authors set four hypotheses and verified them with the following statistical methods: canonical analysis, linear and causality correlation, autocorrelation and cointegration tests. The paper found that there is a relationship between public consumption and investment spending of small enterprises in Poland. That means that only some macroeconomic parameters are connected with investments. Moreover, the changes in the value of past investments has a negative influence in current investments.