The Effect of Nominal Government Deficits on Economic Growth

Yesim Kustepeli ()
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Yesim Kustepeli: DEU, Isletme Fakultesi, Iktisat Bolumu

Ege Academic Review, 2003, vol. 3, issue 1, 47-57

Abstract: It is basically accepted by now that there is a positive relationship between the nominal government deficits and inflation. Government deficits may be financed by monetary growth due to several reasons but whatever the reason, the result is an increase in inflation. This in turn may affect the growth of real GNP negatively, due to its adverse effects on the allocation of resources, on the labor market and on the decisions of firms. This paper combines these two links, i.e. nominal government deficits and inflation, and inflation and real GNP growth. It further shows the effect of nominal government deficits on the economic growth for Turkey. Our results from cointegration and causality tests show that for Turkey for the period of 1950- 2001, nominal government deficits led to increases in the monetary base only in the short run, causing inflation both in the short and the long run. The effect of inflation on real GNP growth is weak and in the reverse direction.

JEL-codes: E31 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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