Using a well-recommended procedure and recent annual data for twenty-two countries, Ganger-causality between government revenue and government expenditure, in both current and constant price terms, is assessed for each country. Evidence of statistically-significant causal flow is lacking in at...

Partly following the research done by Blackburn (1967), Musgrave and Musgrave (1984), Musgrave and Thin (1948), Pechman (1973), Ram (1991), and Tanzi (1969, 1976), sensitivity of individual income tax in the United States is studied for the period 1979-2004. Besides a brief discussion of the...

Empirical status of the basics of Rodrik's (1998) influential proposition about the positive association between a country's external openness and the size of its government is explored from a large multicountry dataset covering the period 1960-2000. In individual-country data for 143 economies,...