Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries
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- Folster, Stefan & Henrekson, Magnus, 2001. "Growth effects of government expenditure and taxation in rich countries," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(8), pages 1501-1520, August.
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Keywords
Economic growth; extreme bounds analysis; government expenditure; public sector; taxation; cross-country regressions; panel regressions; robustness test;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
- O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-1998-10-19 (European Economics)
- NEP-PBE-1998-10-19 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-1998-10-19 (Public Finance)
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