Testing the Relationship Between Government Spending and Revenue: Evidence From GCC Countries

November 1, 2002

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Qing Wang, and Ugo Fasano-Filho. Testing the Relationship Between Government Spending and Revenue: Evidence From GCC Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed December 23, 2024

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Summary

The paper examines the direction of causality between total government expenditure and revenue in oil-dependent GCC countries by utilizing a cointegration and error-correction modeling framework, and by calculating a variance decomposition analysis. In addition, it presents impulse responses to shed light on the dynamic relation of expenditure to a revenue shock. The results confirm expectations that government spending follows oil revenue, suggesting a pro-cyclical expenditure policy to variations in oil revenue. To make budget expenditure less driven by revenue availability, the authorities could resort to a medium-term expenditure framework, so that expenditures can be planned and insulated from volatile short-term revenue availability.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Taxes, Total expenditures

Keywords: Expenditure decision, Expenditure growth, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Gas and mining taxes, GCC countries, GCC country, Global, Government expenditure, Oil, Oil prices, Oil revenue, Revenue, Revenue shock, Spent-revenue hypothesis, Total expenditures, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

27
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/201
Stock No:

WPIEA2002201
ISBN:

9781451874365
ISSN:

1018-5941

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