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...

Government growth has been a long-standing research issue among public economists as well as an important concern of the general public. This paper investigates the impact of government IT investments on government growth. Drawing on the literature on public economics, political sciences, and IT value, I offer theoretical discussions and four mechanisms as to the relationship between IT investm...

This paper examines the idea that the rate of inflation tends to increase nominal government expenditures faster than government revenues. it concludes that while government expenditures rise concurrently with inflation, real government revenues tend to fall based on collection tags. Empirical results using time series data for Iran support our expectations in which the longer is the delay in g...

Globalization and growth-maximizing governments may cause countries to converge towards a similar composition of government expenditures. These convergent forces may be even more intensive in the case of EU Member States engaged in the European integration process. The results obtained, through calculation of a constructed dissimilarity index and by adapting the usual indicators of convergence ...

Based on a sample of panel data for 14 countries spanning the period 2000-2018, this paper investigates effect pandemics government expenditure and public health expenditure. The empirical results show that lead to an increase in expenditure, but positive total may not be statistically significant.

In this paper, we consider the social welfare maximization problem facing a government confronting a potential future security threat. The government must choose how much to devote to long lead time military expenditures. The government must also choose whether to run fiscal surpluses or deficits. We show that the government may optimize social welfare by accumulating a precautionary surplus or...