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Tax or Spend, What Causes What: Taiwan's Experience

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  • Tsangyao Chang

    (Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan)

  • Yuan-Hong Ho

    (Department of Public Finance, Feng Chia University, Taiwan)

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In this paper we tested the hypothesis of tax-and-spend, spend-and-tax, or fiscal synchronization for Taiwan using annual data covering the 1967 to 1999 period. Granger causality test results based on the corresponding vector error-correction models (ECM) suggest unidirectional causality running from government revenues to government expenditures, thus supporting the tax-and-spend hypothesis for Taiwan.

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  • Tsangyao Chang & Yuan-Hong Ho, 2002. "Tax or Spend, What Causes What: Taiwan's Experience," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 1(2), pages 157-165, August.
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    Keywords

    tax-and-spend; spend-and-tax; fiscal synchronization; Taiwan;
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    JEL classification:

    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus

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