The article is focused on the mutual relationship among effective tax burden, size of government spending and economic growth. Its aim is to verify the effect of taxation and government spending on economic growth, but also to verify the effect of taxation and economic growth on the size of...

This aim of the article is to determine the optimal tax policy horizon, and thus its strongest impact on economic growth in OECD countries. From a methodological point of view, the empirical analysis is based on a dynamic panel model, in which the data for the OECD countries in the period of...

The aim of the paper is a verification of particular channels that taxation can influence economic growth by. It concerns an influence by capital accumulation and investments, technological development and human capital accumulation. The effects of total tax burden as well as of particular taxes...

The article presents an indicator of tax burden that can be used as an alternative to tax quota, or implicit tax rates in macroeconomic analyses. It is called WTI – World Tax Index, which is an overall multi-criteria index that was constructed by authors on the basis of hard as well as soft...

Does finance really lead to economic growth? A growing strand of literature finds positive and strong link between finance and growth. On the other hand, research has also questioned the robustness of the finance – growth nexus. Generally, however, there is some consensus that finance –...

This paper delineates the theoretical structure of the factors that determine economic growth in Qatar. The focal point of this paper is identifying the role of major macroeconomic variables that determine growth, namely; government spending, institutional settings, money supply, investment,...

In this paper I discuss three econometric problems that are rarely given adequate discussion in textbooks: model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity, and outliers. I show how Leamer's extreme bounds analysis can be adapted to address all three problems simultaneously, and present two examples...