This paper is concerned with the issue of the intertemporal relationship between revenues and expenditures and the way in which a State Government manages public deficits. In this study, different hypotheses are considered to examine such a problem. The so-called tax-spend hypothesis postulates that government raises tax revenues ahead of engaging in new expenditures (Buchanan and Wagner, 1978; and Friedman,1978). The spend-tax hypothesis, on the other hand, predicts that government first spends and then increases tax revenues to finance their expenditures (Barro, 1974; and Peacock and Wiseman, 1979). There is also the fiscal synchronization hypothesis which suggests that government takes simultaneous decisions about revenues and expenditures (Musgrave, 1966; and Meltzer and Richard, 1981). Lastly, there is independence regarding the decisions to spend and raise revenues (Baghestani and McNown, 1994). Using the annual data on revenues and expenditures for the 22 municipals in Sarawak for the period 1975-2003, the cointegration and vector error correction model analyses suggest that the results are at best mixed.
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Volume (Year): VI (2008) Issue (Month): 1 (February) Pages: 52-65 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML,
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