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Does the Composition of Government Expenditure Matter for Long-Run GDP Levels? (2014)
Journal Article
Sanz, I., Gemmell, N., Kneller, R., Norman, G., & Ismael, S. (2014). Does the Composition of Government Expenditure Matter for Long-Run GDP Levels?. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2484917

We examine the long-run GDP impacts of changes in total government expenditure and in the shares of different spending categories for a sample of OECD countries since the 1970s, taking account of methods of financing expenditure changes and possible... Read More about Does the Composition of Government Expenditure Matter for Long-Run GDP Levels?.

The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity (2014)
Journal Article
Kneller, R., & Misch, F. (2014). The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity. Economic Inquiry, 52(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12092

This paper exploits the unique institutional features of South Africa to estimate the impact of provincial public spending on firm productivity. In contrast to existing microeconomic evidence, we explore the effects of fiscal expenditures and remove... Read More about The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity.

The growth effects of tax rates in the OECD (2014)
Journal Article
Gemmell, N., Kneller, R., & Sanz, I. (2014). The growth effects of tax rates in the OECD. Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 47(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12105

This paper explores the merits of macro- and micro-based tax rate measures within an open economy ‘fiscal policy and growth’ model. Using annual data for 15 OECD countries we find statistically small, non-robust long-run growth effects of macro-based... Read More about The growth effects of tax rates in the OECD.