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 relative to national income. Using the bounds test...

The paper investigates the causal link among inflation, money and budget deficits in Ethiopia for the period 1964 to 2003 using the bounds test approach to cointegration due to Pesaran et al. (2001) and using a modified version of the Granger causality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (1995). To...