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Dividing Government Product Between Intermediate And Final Uses

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  • K. Horz
  • U.P. Reich

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This paper explores the possibility of using the Classification of the Functions of Government published recently by the United Nations (COFOG) in order to segregate intermediate from final use of government production in the national accounts. It is argued that the notorious difficulties of doing that can be traced to two reasons, one the multiplicity of theoretical concepts, and the other the lack of sufficient detail at the statistical level. The first can be removed by clarifying that on the production account of an economy only production and not welfare is to be measured. The second seems to be overcome by the three‐digit detail of COFOG. It is shown that many of these categories are now sufficiently homogeneous for a panel of experts to agree in assigning them to either intermediate or final use, although for a number of categories this is still difficult. The question is whether consensus in the major categories is large enough to consider the remaining controversial ones as border cases, normal in any classification and solved in the last instance not by argument but by convention. Some preliminary figures for the intermediate part of government production are given.

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  • K. Horz & U.P. Reich, 1982. "Dividing Government Product Between Intermediate And Final Uses," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 28(3), pages 325-344, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:28:y:1982:i:3:p:325-344
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1982.tb00620.x
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    1. Wynne, Mark A., 1996. "Balanced budget multipliers," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 197-211.
    2. Daniel Landau, 1985. "Government expenditure and economic growth in the developed countries: 1952–76," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 459-477, January.
    3. Mark A. Wynne, 1992. "The analysis of fiscal policy in neoclassical models," Working Papers 9212, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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