spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until … Wagner’s Law and the ratchet effect hypothesis over a very long time period, starting at the beginning of industrialization … adjustment. According to our main results, Wagner’s Law does not hold in the long run, although the data are consistent with …

spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We analyze data spanning from the early 19th century until … Wagner’s Law and the ratchet effect hypothesis over a very long time period, starting at the beginning of industrialization … adjustment. According to our main results, Wagner’s Law does not hold in the long run, although the data are consistent with …

characterized by economies of scale. This study also documents that Wagner’s law does not hold true for China. Moreover, both …

as an exogenous factor to be used as a policy instrument to in-fluence growth. “Augmented” version of Wagner’s Law, where … literature on this issue is offered, before evaluating some specifications of “Wagner’s Law” due to several researchers. Few …

Wagner’s Law is the first model of public spending in the history of public finance. The aim of this article is to … of Wagner’s Law for some specific items of public spending (for interests, for final consumption, for labour dependent … items. Moreover, Granger causality tests results show evidence in favour of Wagner’s law only for spending for passive …

factor which explains the request. This validates Wagner’s law in case of Cameroon. Side of offer, factors such as effect …

spending and per-capita GDP which is consistent with the so-called Wagner’s law. A long-run elasticity larger than one suggests … No. 2008/13 Increasing Public Expenditures: Wagner’s Law in OECD Countries Serena Lamartina and Andrea ….zaghini@bancaditalia.it CFS Working Paper No. 2008/13 Increasing Public Expenditures: Wagner’s Law in OECD Countries* Serena Lamartina 1 …

The validity of Wagner’s law, which states that the growth of public expenditure can be explained as a result of the …, industrialisation and modernisation of the economy, conditions which should be conducive to Wagner’s law. In addition, the long data …