 The validity of Wagner’s Law in Greece during the last 2 centuriesChristian Richter and Dimitrios Paparas No 2012.2, Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER Abstract: In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between national income and government spending by using Greek data from 1833 until 2010. We use 5 different formulations of Wagner’s law (the long run tendency for government expenditure to expand relative to economic growth) and find that empirical results are supportive for Wagner’s law. The data set span covers a period of almost 2 centuries; the long data set thus ensures the reliability of our results in terms of statistical and economic conclusions. Furthermore, the data set covers the early periods of development of the Greek economy, a period of growth, industrialisation and modernisation of the economy, conditions which should be conducive to Wagner’s law. Our analysis provides evidence of long run relationship between government spending and national income, while the Granger causality tests indicate that causality runs from the national income to spending. Moreover we include tests for structural changes to take into account regime changes that occur over time. Our empirical results are in accordance with other studies examined the validity of Wagner’s law in Greece and in other economies by using long data set. Pages: 20 pages Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inf:wpaper:2012.2 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER Contact information at EDIRC. |
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