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Government Consumption Volatility and the Size of Nations

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  • Davide Furceri

    (OECD)

  • Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

    (Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales)

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relation between the volatility of government consumption and country size. Using a sample of 160 countries from 1960 to 2000 the main findings of our empirical analysis suggest that: 1) smaller countries have more volatile non-discretionary and discretionary government consumption, and also a more volatile government size; 2) the relation between government spending volatility and the size of a country is more negative for more volatile economies; 3) the relation between government consumption volatility and country size is more negative for functions of government spending that are characterized by a high level on non-rivality. The results are robust to different time and country samples, different econometric techniques and to several sets of control variables. La volatilité de la consommation du gouvernement et la taille du pays L'objectif de ce papier est d'analyser la relation existant entre la volatilité de la consommation du gouvernement et la taille du pays. Utilisant un échantillon de 160 pays de 1960 à 2000, les principaux résultats de notre analyse suggèrent que : 1) Les petits pays ont une consommation du gouvernement discrétionnaire et non-discrétionnaire plus volatile, de même qu'une taille de gouvernement plus volatile; 2) La relation entre la volatilité des dépenses du gouvernement et la taille du pays est plus négative pour les économies les plus volatiles; 3) La relation entre la volatilité de la consommation du gouvernement et la taille du pays est plus négative for les catégories de dépense publiques qui sont caractérisées par un haut niveau de non-rivalité. Les résultats sont robustes à des changements de période et d'échantillons de pays, à l'utilisation de différentes techniques économétriques et au choix de différentes variables de contrôle.

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  • Davide Furceri & Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro, 2009. "Government Consumption Volatility and the Size of Nations," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 687, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:687-en
    DOI: 10.1787/225543847282
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    Keywords

    country size; fiscal policy; fiscal volatility; government size; politique budgétaire; taille du gouvernement; taille du pays; volatilité budgétaire;
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    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General

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