scholarly journals Economic Output and Government Expenditures: Applicability of Wagner’s Law in Jordan

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihab Khaled Magableh ◽  
Nabeel Sawalha ◽  
Mohammad I. Elian
Keyword(s):  
Government Expenditures ◽  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
Wagner's Law

Explaining Government Growth in the U.S. States

1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 837-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Garand
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
Fiscal Illusion ◽  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Weak Support ◽  
Government Growth ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
Party Control ◽  
Competing Models ◽  
Wagner's Law ◽  
Intergovernmental Grant

Despite the explosive increase in the research program on government growth in recent years, little work has been done on government growth disaggregated to the subnational level. I examine the empirical validity of five competing models of government growth for the fifty U.S. states from 1945 to 1984: Wagner's Law, fiscal illusion, party control, bureau voting, and intergovernmental grant. Government size is defined in terms of state government spending as a proportion of total state economic output, with separate implicit price deflators being employed for the public and private sectors. Based on a longitudinal test of these competing models, the analysis uncovers strong empirical support for the bureau voting and intergovernmental grant models, moderately weak support for the Wagner's Law model, and virtually no support for the fiscal illusion and party control explanations. These findings have important implications for the study of government growth in general and, more specifically, in the states.

scholarly journals Testing Wagner’s Law and Keynesian Hypothesis in Selected Post‑Soviet Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 1227-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyhun A. Abbasov ◽  
Khatai Aliyev
Keyword(s):  
Government Expenditures ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Per Capita Gdp ◽  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Wagner's Law ◽  
Modelling Approach

The aim of this research is to test Wagner’s law and Keynesian hypothesis in 9 Post‑Soviet countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, and Ukraine. For this purpose, long‑ and short‑run causality between real per capita GDP and real per capita government expenditures are estimated by employing ARDL modelling approach. Estimation results support validity of Wagner’s law for Latvia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic and Ukraine, and validity of Keynesian hypothesis for Estonia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova in the long‑run. Meanwhile, research findings indicate strong bidirectional short‑run causality in all countries except Lithuania and Kyrgyz Republic in the short‑run.

WAGNER'S LAW: AN ECONOMETRIC TEST FOR MEXICO, 1925-1976

1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-201
Author(s):  
ARTHUR J. MANN
Keyword(s):  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Wagner's Law

Wagner's law and public expenditure growth in Kuwait

OPEC Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeem A. Burney ◽  
Nadia Al-Mussallam
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Expenditure Growth ◽  
Wagner's Law

scholarly journals A validation of Wagner's Law: a case study of Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Ali Salman Saleh ◽  
Reetu Verma ◽  
Ranjith Ihalanayake
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Wagner’S Law ◽  
Wagner's Law
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