Estimating the permanent income elasticity of government expenditures: Evidence on Wagner's law based on oil price shocks

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 96, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1025-1035

  Brückner, Markus ^a   Chong, Alberto ^b   Gradstein, Mark ^c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e CESifo ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Permanent income elasticity of government spending; Wagner law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868609675     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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