Government Consumption Expenditures and the Current Account

Government Consumption Expenditures and the Current Account

This paper distinguishes between two components of government consumption, expenditure on final goods and expenditure on hours, and compares the effects of changes in these two on the current account. I find that changes in government expenditure on hours do not directly affect the current account and that their impact is considerably smaller than the impact produced by changes in government ex...

The effects of Government Expenditures on the Growth of Iranian

The purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the effects of government intervention on the Iranian economy over the last few decades. It is shown that public expenditures affect the value added of each economic sector not only simultaneously, but lagged over several periods. Regression results show that the value added from the agricultural sector has never been affected by government e...

a study of the relationship between government budget deficit and current account: the case of iran 1342-1385

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Government Structure and Local Public Expenditures*

The relationship between local government structure and expenditure has received considerable attention, yet there is little consensus on how the features of representative government affect local expenditure decisions. The sole exception is city council size, which has consistently been found to have a positive and significant impact on expenditure. Previous results rely on cross-sectional est...

Intergenerational Correlation of Consumption Expenditures