A Panel Cointegration Analysis of the Relation between Private and Government Consumption

Åsa Eriksson ()
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Åsa Eriksson : Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden, http://www.nek.lu.se/en/contact

No 2006:2, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyses the relation between private and government consumption in 23 OECD countries between 1970 and 2001. In particular it addresses the issue of whether government consumption is a substitute for or a complement to private consumption. The empirical analysis is made with panel cointegration analysis, using the newly developed CUSUM cointegration test by \cite{westerlund05}. The method is extended by using a bootstrap technique to control for cross-sectional dependence. The results show that government consumption is a complement to private consumption for most of the countries and a substitute for only a few of the countries.

Keywords: Private consumption; Government consumption; Panel cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 E21 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2005-12-21
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