Government Spending, Taxes, and Economic Growth

Government Spending, Taxes, and Economic Growth
ISBN-10
1451951477
ISBN-13
9781451951479
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
36
Language
English
Published
1994-08-01
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Author
Mr.Paul Cashin

Description

This paper develops an endogenous growth model of the influence of public investment, public transfers, and distortionary taxation on the rate of economic growth. The growth-enhancing effects of investment in public capital and transfer payments are modeled, as is the growth-inhibiting influence of the levying of distortionary taxes which are used to fund such expenditure. The theoretical implications of the model are then tested with data from 23 developed countries between 1971 and 1988, and time series cross sectional results are obtained which support the proposed influence of the public finance variables on economic growth.

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