Productive government expenditure and economic growth

Journal of Economic Surveys

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 692-733

  Irmen, Andreas ^a,b   Kuehnel, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Fiscal policy; Government expenditure; Public goods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FISCAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC GOODS; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 68549136807     PISSN: 09500804     EISSN: 14676419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2009.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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