01909cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF010127 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451922844 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. The Growth of Government Expenditure : A Review of Quantitative Analysis. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1988. 1 online resource (50 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper reviews the extensive empirical literature on the growth and determinants of government expenditure. Although the coverage does not aim to be exhaustive, the authors provide an overview of the quantitative approaches to analyzing the growth in government expenditure. The main debates in the literature are described, and the authors present a few tests of some theories and describe one or two of their own experiments in others. The paper highlights the data problems and the technical difficulties of hypothesis testing and model estimation in this area, many arising from the nature of the problem studied. It is contended that the quantitative analysis of government expenditure growth has often improved the formulation of hypotheses, but that data and theoretical limitations have meant that the methods employed have not always been justified. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1988/017 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1988/017/001.1988.issue-017-en.xml IMF e-Library