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D. Landau, “Government and Economic Growth in the less Developed Countries: An Empirical Study for 1960-80,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1986, pp. 35-75. doi:10.1086/451572

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• TITLE: The Effect of Federal Government Size on Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States, 1791-2009

  AUTHORS: Federico Guerrero, Elliott Parker

  KEYWORDS: Long-Term Economic Growth; Federal Government Size; Wagner’s Law; United States; Cointegration; Granger Causality; Vector Autoregression; Vector Error Correction Model

  JOURNAL NAME: Modern Economy, Vol.3 No.8, December 31, 2012

  ABSTRACT: We consider whether there is statistical evidence for a causal relationship between federal government expenditures and growth in real GDP in the United States, using available data going back to 1791. After studying the time-series properties of these variables for stationarity and cointegration, we investigate Granger causality in detail in the context of a Vector Error Correction Model. While we find causal evidence that faster GDP growth leads to faster growth in government spending, we find no evidence supporting the common assertion that a larger government sector leads to slower economic growth.