We study the interactions between institutional quality, government expenditure, tax
revenue, and economic growth in low-income countries (LICs) and lower middle-income …

The concern over budget deficits in the mid-1980s generated a strand of literature known as
the tax-spend debate, sometimes labeled the revenue-expenditure nexus. This literature has …

The post-World War II increase in the size of the federal government has led to a number of
theo-retical and empirical investigations of the sources of this growth. In particular …

Numerous studies have attempted to model the possible factors contributing to universal
growth in public sectors. This paper analyzes one device that appears capable of controlling …

Several interesting papers have recently considered whether government taxes Granger
cause gov-ernment spending or vice versa. The findings, based on standard Granger [6] …

An understanding of the determinants of government receipts and expenditures is of obvious
importance. In two interesting papers, Anderson, Wallace, and Warner [1] and Manage and …

The paper examines the causal relationship between tax revenues and expenditures in the
G7 countries using cointegration and error-correction methodology. This statistical technique …

The relationship between government revenue and government expenditure has attracted a
lot of interest given its policy relevance, particularly with respect to budget deficits. The goal …

For resolving the budget deficit problem, some economists have advocated spending cuts,
while others support either tax increases or tax cuts. This paper investigates the …

The nexus between government revenue and government expenditure has been an
important topic in public economics. In this paper, we investigate evidence for cointegration …