In this Paper, we investigate the relation between public and private consumption, by constructing a general government spending dataset, by function, for twelve European Union countries. In particular, we split government consumption into two categories. The first category includes defence,...

This paper replicates the article Fiorito and Kollintzas (2004) “Public goods, merit goods, and the relationship between private and government consumption”. The authors investigated whether government consumption crowds out private consumption by splitting government consumption into two...

In this paper, we investigate the relation between public and private consumption, by constructing a general government spending data set, by function, for twelve European Union countries. In particular, we split government consumption into two categories. The first category includes defense,...