Growth effects of government expenditure and taxation in rich countries:: A reply

被引：9

作者：

Fölster, S

Henrekson, M ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Confederat Swedish Enterprise, SE-11485 Stockholm, Sweden

[2] Stockholm Sch Econ, Dept Econ, SE-11383 Stockholm, Sweden

来源：

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2006年 / 50卷 / 01期

关键词：

economic growth; extreme bounds analysis; fiscal policy; government expenditure; public sector; taxation; cross-country regressions; robustness test;

D O I：

10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.02.007

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Agell et al. (2005) criticise our earlier findings (Folster and Henrekson 2001) of a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth for an extended sample of rich countries. In this short paper it is argued that their critique is unfounded. Most importantly, the critique does not deal with the main result of the original study, namely that the most complete specifications for assessing the relationship between government expenditure and growth in rich countries are robust even according to stringent extreme bounds criteria. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：219 / 221

页数：3