The Cyclical and Long-Term Behavior of Government Expenditures in Developing Countries
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Volume 2004
Issue 202
Publication date: October 2004
ISBN: 9781451874433
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Economics- Macroeconomics , Public Finance , WP , government spending , financial risk , Fiscal policy , Business cycles , Wagner’s law , GDP ratio , current spending , government consumption expenditure , spending category , total spending , elasticity of government spending , Current spending , Total expenditures , Government consumption , Capital spending , Africa
Summary
We examine the short- and long-term movements of government spending relative to output in 51 countries. We find that in the short term, the main components of government spending increase with output in about half of the sample countries, with some variation across spending categories and countries. Further, we find that there is a long-term relationship between government spending and output (in line with "Wagner's law") for the majority of countries for at least one spending aggregate. In the short term, we find that power dispersion and government size typically dampen the positive response of government spending to output. Output volatility and financial risk, on the other hand, contribute to the procylicality of government spending.
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