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Velikost veřejného sektoru a ekonomický růst
[The Scope of Government and Economic Growth]

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  • Petr Zimčík

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The aim of this paper is to find a long-term relationship between the economic growth and the size of government. Four different characteristics are used to measure the government size. Total public expenditures, total tax revenues, fi nal government consumption and share of compensation of public workers to overall spending. There are also added control variables and time dummy variable to prevent biased results. The analysis was performed on data from 30 OECD countries from years 1995-2014. Fixed-eff ects panel regression was used to determine relationship between these individual indicators of government size and the economic growth. Main findings of this paper are that change in all indicators is negatively correlated with the growth. Especially in case of final government consumption which indicated the strongest negative relationship.

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  • Petr Zimčík, 2016. "Velikost veřejného sektoru a ekonomický růst [The Scope of Government and Economic Growth]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2016(4), pages 439-450.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2016:y:2016:i:4:id:1080:p:439-450
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1080
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    Keywords

    size of government; economic growth; public expenditures; tax revenues; public sector;
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    JEL classification:

    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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