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Economic growth and budgetary components : a panel assessment for the EU

Afonso, António (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we test whether a reallocation of government budget items can enhance long-term GDP growth in a set of European countries. We apply modern panel data techniques to the period 1970-2006, and we use three alternative dependent variables in a growth regression: economic growth, total...

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Government size, composition, volatility and economic growth

Afonso, António (contributor); Furceri, Davide (contributor) - 2008

and EU countries. The results of the paper suggest that both variables are detrimental to growth. In particular, looking …

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Assessing long-term fiscal developments : a new approach

Afonso, António; Agnello, Luca; Furceri, Davide - 2009

We use a new approach to assess long-term fiscal developments. By analyzing the time varying behaviour of the two components of government spending and revenue responsiveness and persistence - we are able to infer about the sources of fiscal behaviour. Drawing on quarterly data we estimate...

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Spend-and-tax : a panel data investigation for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a … spend-and-tax strategy, implying adjustments of fiscal behaviour. -- panel causality ; fiscal policy ; EU …

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