In economics the relationship between economic growth, debt, taxation and spending is an important one. In this paper we will use an optimal control model to analyze such relationship further. We find that lowering the tax rate is the only strategy that will increase growth and on the same time...

This paper discusses in a systematic and comprehensive way the existing literature on the relationship between the growth of countries’ economies and various public finance instruments, such as tax policy, expenditure policy, and overall budgetary policy, from the perspectives of allocative...