Government Spending and Air Pollution in the US

Government Spending and Air Pollution in the US

This study examines the effect of the composition of federal and state government spending on various important air pollutants in the US using a newly assembled data set of government expenditures. The results indicate that a reallocation of spending from private goods (RME) to social and public goods (PME) by state and local governments reduces air pollution concentrations while the compositio...

Government Spending and Growth

Globalization and Government Spending around the World

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1999 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta GA, September 1-5 1999. I would like to thanks seminar participants at Harvard University, the Juan March Institute, UCLA, and the Yale Law School for helpful comments. Special thanks to Adam Przeworski, Ronald Rogowski, Alastair Smith and George Tsebelis for pushing...

Composition of Government Spending, Optimal Fiscal Policy, and Endogenous Growth in the Economy of Iran

This paper investigates the optimal fiscal policy, pertaining to government spending, considering different productivity of public services in production function and its impact on the optimal tax rate, the optimal rate of government spending, and optimal economic growth rate. Using the VECM model for Iranian economy over 48 years, results show while the current expenditure has a positive and s...

Growth and Local Government Spending in Georgia

This brief is a technical analysis that estimates the effect of local government spending on economic growth at the county level in Georgia. Recent studies in the growth and economic development literature have emphasized the impact of government spending on growth at the national and state levels, but few of these studies have attempted to identify growth–enhancing government expenditures at t...