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Government Spending, Taxes, and Economic Growth

This paper develops an endogenous growth model of the influence of public investment, public transfers, and distortionary taxation on the rate of economic growth. The growth-enhancing effects of investment in public capital and transfer payments are modeled, as is the growth-inhibiting influence of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cashin, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1994
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: Infrastructures
Wealth
Institutional Investors
Stocks
Public Investment Spending
Pension Funds
Labour; Income Economics
Human Capital
Public Finance & Taxation
Saving
Financial Instruments
Fiscal Policy
Skills
Other Public Investment And Capital Stock
Labor
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Expenditure
Labor Productivity
Non-bank Financial Institutions
Consumption; Economics
Investments: Stocks
Expenditures, Public
Consumption
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics: Consumption
Occupational Choice
Public Investments
Investment & Securities
Public Finance
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper develops an endogenous growth model of the influence of public investment, public transfers, and distortionary taxation on the rate of economic growth. The growth-enhancing effects of investment in public capital and transfer payments are modeled, as is the growth-inhibiting influence of the levying of distortionary taxes which are used to fund such expenditure. The theoretical implications of the model are then tested with data from 23 developed countries between 1971 and 1988, and time series cross sectional results are obtained which support the proposed influence of the public finance variables on economic growth
Physical Description:36 pages
ISBN:9781451951479

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