Interlinkages between public expenditures, non-tax government revenues and corruption in the transition economies

Alper Ozun, Hasan Ertugrul () and Ergul Haliscelik

Journal of Capital Markets Studies, 2024, vol. 8, issue 2, 242-254

Abstract: Purpose - This article examines potential impacts of increase in non-tax government revenues and public expenses on corruption for 11 transition economies in the Central and Eastern Europe. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical analysis uses yearly panel datasets and employs second-generation panel data models which take cross-sectional dependency and slope heterogeneity into account. Findings - The empirical results reveal the fact that there is a strong linkage between public expenses and corruption and a weak linkage between non-tax revenue collection and corruption in the transition economies. We perform the same analysis by using data sets from G-7 countries but do not notice any linkages between those variables. Research limitations/implications - The research topic requires further discussion on constitutional political economy to digest the empirical findings. Thus, an extended version combined with political economic approach might be useful. Practical implications - Through economic transitions, there might be a linkage between public expenditures and corruption index. Thus, public spending might be controlled by using constitutional economics policies. Originality/value - This paper is the first empirical work in the literature, which examines if there is a linkage between corruption and public expenditures and government tax income structure by using panel data sets. Moreover, it compares the results from transition countries with those of G-7 countries and provides certain policy suggestions in the context of constitutional economics.

Keywords: Transition economies; Constitutional economics; Corruption; Tax revenue; Dynamic CCEMG model; H20; D73; C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1108/JCMS-08-2024-0041

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