Bootstrap Panel Granger-Causality Between Government Spending and Revenue

Antonio Afonso and Christophe Rault

No 2008/39, Working Papers Department of Economics from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government revenue and spending for the EU in the period 1960-2006. Spend-and-tax causality is found for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and Portugal, while tax-and-spend evidence is present for Germany, Belgium, Austria Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States.

Keywords: panel causality; fiscal policy; EU. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E62 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07
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