Testing Wagner’s law versus the Keynesian hypothesis for GCC countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Salah A. Nusair ◽  
Dennis O. Olson
1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-201
Author(s):  
ARTHUR J. MANN
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OPEC Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeem A. Burney ◽  
Nadia Al-Mussallam

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Ali Salman Saleh ◽  
Reetu Verma ◽  
Ranjith Ihalanayake

Author(s):  
Panos Afxentiou ◽  
Apostolos Serletis
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2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4(J)) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Mthokozisi Mlilo ◽  
Matamela Netshikulwe

Direction of causality between government expenditure and output growth is pertinent for a developing country since a sizeable volume of economic resources is in the hands of the public sector. This paper investigates the Wagner's law in South Africa over the post-apartheid era, 1994-2015. This paper is unique to present studies since it uses disaggregated government expenditure and controls for structural breaks. The Granger non-causality test of Toda & Yamamoto, a superior technique compared to conventional Granger causality testing, is employed and this paper finds no support for Wagner's law. However, there is causality running from total government and education expenditures to output. This finding is in line with the Keynesian framework. It is recommended in the paper that the government should take an active role in promoting output growth through increases in education expenditures in particular.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-430
Author(s):  
Žaneta Tesařová

AbstractThis research paper analyses the relationship between gross domestic product and public expenditures in nominal terms. The analysis is being done by using the standard Peacock-Wiseman specification of the Wagner’s law and provides the results for the Visegrád Four countries, i.e. the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. We aim to answer a question concerning the existence of a long and/or short-term relationship between the nominal GDP and nominal public expenditures, which consist of current and capital expenditures. To address this question, we employ the VAR model, the Johansen Cointegration test and the VEC model. We study a period between the first quarter of 1999 and the second quarter of 2019 and find out mixed results for the Visegrád Four countries.


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