This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic
growth in OECD countries in 1960? 2000. The underlying idea is that government …

There is a vast empirical literature investigating the relationship between government size
and economic growth. But the empirical evidence of growth effects of public expenditure …

This paper presents data on the size and growth of general government expenditures and
receipts relative to GDP in OECD countries over the 1960–81 period. A feature of these …

This paper builds upon the existing literature in two ways. First, the differential effects of
various (economic) categories of government spending are examined in greater detail, a …

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 …

Governments incur expenditures in order to fulfill the following roles in the economy:(a) to
correct distortions or market failures;(b) regulate private activity that might harm society;(c) …

The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is
full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in …

Fölster and Henrekson (European Economic Review 45 (2001), 1501–1520) argue that “...
the more the econometric problems that are addressed, the more robust the relationship …

This study investigates the role of the government in economic growth by extending the
neoclassical production function to incorporate two dimensions of the government–the size …

We construct a growth model with an explicit government role, where more government
resources reduce the optimal level of private consumption and of output per worker. In the …