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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Government spending"”.
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Government Spending And Economic Growth In Tanzania 1970-2010
… of this paper is to analyze the impact of government spending on economic growth in Tanzania for the period 1970-2010. We find that government expenditure is positively correlated with economic growth. Moreover, we find that only public expenditure of the current period and lagged in two …
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Oil volatility and government spending behaviour in oil-exporting countries.
… including revenue, price and rent in relation to government spending behaviour in OPEC and non-OPEC oil exporting countries. A research gap has been identified in three areas, firstly, there is a paucity of comparative literature between OPEC and non-OPEC countries. Secondly, there exists a …
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Opinions On Government Spending On Social Security: A Year And Cohort Analysis
… paper is an analysis of American's opinions on government spending on Social Security. The main objectives were to analyze the effect of year and cohort membership on the likelihood for American's to say that they think the government is spending too little on Social Security. The data was …
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An examination of the effects of government spending on interest rates and trade balance in Namibia
This paper aims to examine the effects of government expenditure on interest rates and trade balance in Namibia for the period, 1980 to 2018. An ARDL bounds cointegration technique and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were employed for the analysis. As a precondition, the time series data used …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… of female legislators. The outcome variable, government spending, measures substantive representation by analyzing government spending data across several issue areas. The key question is: has the addition of women to national legislatures led to an increase in government spending in women's …
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Origins and Use of Presidential Polling in Mexico, Presidential Approval in Mexico, Government Spending and Public Opinion in Mexico
… understudied topic, the relationship between government spending (used as proxy for policy) and public opinion (collected by the PPU). The first paper relies on crosstabulations, text analysis, wordclouds and cluster analysis. Additionally, to offer an insider's view, I conducted a series of …
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Essays on macroeconometrics and fiscal policy
How does government spending affect the macroeconomy? This question has been a long-standing question in macroeconomics. The key object of interest is the government spending multiplier which measures the change in output in response to a $1 increase in government spending. The central question of …
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State-Level Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: Assessing Recovery from the 2007 Recession
… on the short- and long-run effectiveness of government spending at achieving economic growth. Using OLS regression models to test the impact of government spending, institutional constraints, and economic policy climates on economic growth, this research shows that government spending has a …
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When Government Wastefulness is Publically Preferred: Applying Relationship Theory to People’s Appraisal of Government Stimulus Spending
… idea that the general public finds some forms of government spending more palatable than others even if the forms they find more palatable are in fact known to be more wasteful. Keynes suggests that there is a tendency to analyze such spending on buildings and bridges through a business …
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Social Policy and Compliance: An Experimental Study on Taxpayer Behavior
… economic and political stimuli have driven many governmental legislative policy changes. Funding for government initiatives primarily comes from federal tax dollars; thus, legislators regularly deliberate on the importance of taxpayer compliance. This study investigated the impact of morality and …
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The impact of public spending on education in Nigeria
This study investigated the impact of public spending on enrolments in primary and secondary education in Nigeria using a multiple regression model. The model was constructed to identify the relationship between government spending, primary and secondary enrolments rate while also considering the …
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Oil Boom, Fiscal Policy and Economic Development: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Role of Alternative Fiscal Rules In Ghana’s Emerging Petroleum Economy
… rules. Fiscal sustainability is measured by government long-term fiscal space in proportion to non-oil GDP, whilst development impacts are measured through a dynamic CGE model of Ghana.<br/><br/><br/>Generally, the study makes four important findings on how fiscal policy triggered by the …
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Essays In Fiscal Policy
… fiscal instruments have historically financed government debt. The economic impact of fiscal adjustments is studied for two labor supply specifications. The first specification restricts labor supply by equalizing hours worked across household types. The second relaxes this assumption, allowing …
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The impact of public spending on roads infrastructure on Malawi's economic growth
… has been a cardinal objective of all successive governments since Malawi gained its independence in 1964. Successive administrations have on different occasions made attempts to direct government spending towards achieving objectives that have direct bearing on its populace. According to …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Policy
… the opposite direction. Moreover, both positive government spending and positive government revenue shocks decrease industrial sector returns whereas increase healthcare sector returns.</p> <p>Finally, the third essay characterizes the results of US government spending shocks on domestic and …
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Empirical Evidence of the Effects of Public Spending on Economic Growth from BRICS
The topic of the impact of government spending on economic growth has previously been extensively researched, however the evidence is inconclusive to make a ruling. The purpose of this study was to examine the empirical relationship between government spending and economic growth for the BRICS …
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Essays on Nonlinearities and Structural Breaks in the Relationships between Macroeconomic Variables
… the second chapter, I investigate the effects of government spending on U.S. economic activity using a threshold version of a structural vector autoregressive model. The empirical findings support state-dependent effects of fiscal policy. In particular, the effects of a government spending shock …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Implications of International Capital Flow and Fiscal Uncertainty
… asset substitution between short and long-term government bonds, I find that shocks to long-term U.S debt held by foreign official institutions have expansionary effects on the economy--they lower the long-term interest rate and increase output, consumption and inflation. This result is …
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