a rich menu of possible causal patterns. Using data on Greece, UK and Ireland, the analysis shows: i) government size … Granger causes economic growth in all countries of the sample in the short run and in the long run for Ireland and the UK; ii …) economic growth Granger causes increases in the relative size of government in Greece, and, when inflation is included, in the …

data for Cyprus, Greece and Spain. We use the growth of real GDP per capita as a measure of economic growth and …

methodology is applied to monthly interest rates for four southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain from the …