The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of government consumption expenditures on macroeconomic variables in oil and non-oil developing countries during the period 2004-2018. For this purpose, the panel vector autoregressive model (Panel Var) was used to investigate the impact of government expenditures shocks by two techniques of impulse response and variance decomposition in th...

Background: The rate of substitution for private and public health expenditures is one of the factors that can explain the different effects of public and private health expenditures on health and life expectancy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to estimate the return to scale, share, and elasticity of the substitution for public and private health expenditures in Iran. Methods: In th...

Government’s financial expenditures have an outstanding effect on the private sector’s investment and they are regarded as a powerful tool for the growth and economic stability policies. This article tries to study the effects of government’s financial expenditures (current and capital expenditures as well as budget deficit) on private investment in Iran on the basis of crowding out effect hypo...

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...

This article examines the relationships between government expenditures (current and capital) and private investment over the period of 1959- 2007 in Iran. To examine the long and short run relationships between model variables, the dynamic auto regression approach with distributed lag (ARDL) and the standard Granger causality relationship has been used. Findings indicate that based on long and...