Advocates of supply-side economics contend that at least some of the economies are on the negatively sloped portion of the well-publicized Laffer curve, so that a lowering of tax rates will increase tax revenue and, thereby, reduce fiscal deficits in the long run. The purpose of this paper is to...

Over the past two decades there has been an increase in the relative size of the public sector, accompanied by a decline in the growth performance of the Greek economy. In an attempt to highlight the contribution of the government size to growth, an analytical framework is developed,...