IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/kee/kerpuk/2005-03.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Asymmetries in the Growth of Governments

Author

Listed:
  • Gabriella Legrenzi

    (Keele University, Department of Economics)

Abstract

The growth of governments has traditionally been modelled within a welfare-driven context, where citizens/taxpayers increase their demand for publicly-provided goods and services in response to economic growth. However, the underlying linear approach does not consider the crisis intervention function of government spending that increases following contractions, rather than expansions, in domestic income. Our results point to a consistent counter-cyclical use of non-systematic government consumption expenditure.We also provide evidence of an upward bias in both discretionary and non-systematic government spending that can help explain the relevant growth of the Italian public sector.

Suggested Citation

  • Gabriella Legrenzi, 2005. "Asymmetries in the Growth of Governments," Keele Economics Research Papers KERP 2005/03, Centre for Economic Research, Keele University.
    • Handle: RePEc:kee:kerpuk:2005/03
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/wpapers/kerp0503.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Government spending; economic growth; automatic and discretionary fiscal policy.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • C52 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kee:kerpuk:2005/03. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Martin E. Diedrich (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dekeeuk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.