Government Spending and Economic Growth: A Cointegration Analysis on Romania

The impact of Government spending on economic growth in D-8 countries

The present paper examines the effect of government consumption expenditures on economic growth in D-8 countries during the period of 1988 to 2010 using the panel data method. Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia are the countries that have been researched in this study. Fixed effect method is used for the model estimation that has been acquired from Lizard...

Government Spending and Growth

Terms of Trade Volatility, Government Spending Cyclicality, and Economic Growth

This paper presents estimates of the effects that terms of trade volatility has on real GDP per capita growth. Based on 5-year non-overlapping panel data comprising 175 countries during 1980-2010, the paper finds that terms of trade volatility has significant adverse effects on economic growth in countries with procyclical government spending; in countries where government spending is countercy...

RePEc Archive Government spending , corruption and economic growth

This paper considers the effects of corruption and government spending on economic growth. It starts from an endogenous growth model and extends it to account for the detrimental effects of corruption on the potentially productive components of government spending, namely military and investment spending. The resulting model is estimated on a sample of African countries and the results show, fi...

An Analysis of the Effect of Consumption Spending and Investment on Indonesia’s Economic Growth

This study aims to examine the effect of investment and consumption spending on Indonesia’s economic growth. The data used is the quarterly time series data from the first quarter of year 2003 to the fourth quarter of year 2013, comprising consumption spending, investment and economic growth. For the purpose of analysis, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used. The result of the...