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The Effect of Federal Government Size on Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States, 1792-2004

Guerrero, Federico; Parker, Elliott - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2007

the context of a Vector Error Correction Model. While we find causal evidence supporting Wagner’s Law, we find no evidence …

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Sustainable Social Spending in a Greying Economy with Stagnant Public Services: Baumol’s Cost Disease Revisited

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2006

Baumol’s cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over...

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GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES IN CHINA AND TAIWAN: DO THEY FOLLOW WAGNER¡¯S LAW?

Huang, Chiung-Ju - In: Journal of Economic Development 31 (2006) 2, pp. 139-148

This paper tests Wagner¡¯s Law for China and Taiwan, using annual time series data covering the period 1979-2002. To … and Taiwan. Furthermore, Toda and Yamamoto¡¯s (1995) Granger non-causality test results also show that Wagner¡¯s Law does …

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On the implications of trade openness, foreign aid and democracy for Wagner’s law in developing countries: panel data evidence from west African monetary zone (WAMZ)

Sakyi, Daniel - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 319-339

emphasized in the literature in recent decades. Nonetheless, most recent studies of Wagner’s law have often neglected the … openness, foreign aid and democracy for the fulfillment of Wagner’s law in West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) countries using … panel data techniques for the period 1980–2008. The paper finds the existence of Wagner’s law in WAMZ countries, but only …

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Government expenditure and economic growth: the ethiopian experience, 1950–2007

Menyah, Kojo; Wolde-Rufael, Yemane - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 263-280

This paper investigates the relationship between government expenditure and economic growth in Ethiopia to test Wagner’s … Law which postulates that as real income increases there is a tendency for the share of public expenditure to increase …

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Does Wagner´s Law Ruin the Sustainability of German Public Finances?

Koester, Gerrit B.; Priesmeier, Christoph - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 69 (2013) 3, pp. 256-288

Wagner´s law. In this paper, we argue that they should be analyzed simultaneously, using vector error-correction models for … ruined by the interaction of Wagner´s law with permanent expenditure increases and revenue reductions resulting from fiscal …

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Testing Wagner’s Law in an Oil-Exporting Economy: the Case of Azerbaijan

Bashirli, Samad; Sabiroglu, Ilkin - In: Transition Studies Review 20 (2013) 3, pp. 295-307

This paper investigates the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth in Azerbaijan, including impact of oil prices. Applying time series econometrics, such as unit roots and bounds testing approaches, and autoregressive distributed lag techniques the analysis in this study is...

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Ideology and the size of US state government

Pickering, Andrew; Rockey, James - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 3, pp. 443-465

This paper theorizes that the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments increases with state income. This idea is tested using state-level ideology data derived from the voting behavior of state congressional representatives. Empirically the interaction of ideology and mean income...

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Federal legislative activism in Australia: a new approach to testing Wagner’s law

Kirchner, Stephen - In: Public Choice 153 (2012) 3, pp. 375-392

This paper considers the relationship between government growth and real GDP per capita by developing models of federal legislative output in Australia since 1901. Growth in legislation is found to be negatively related to growth in real income per capita in the short-run, implying that...

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Determinants of government size: evidence from China

Wu, Alfred; Lin, Mi - In: Public Choice 151 (2012) 1, pp. 255-270

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