Volume2, No. 2, August 2003

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Tax or Spend, What causes What? Reconsidering Taiwan’s Experience
Scott M. Fuess, Jr.
Department of Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A and IZA.
Jack W. Hou
Department of Economics, California State University-Long Beach, U.S.A.
Meghan Millea
Department of Finance and Economics, Mississippi State University, U.S.A.
 
Abstract
   
Earlier research suggests that there has been one-way causality from government revenues to expenditures in Taiwan. This study measures linear feedback to (1) decompose the relationship between Taiwan’s government spending and receipts and (2) account for contemporaneous association. Despite substantial fiscal synchronization, we still find one-way causality from government receipts to expenditures.
 
Key words: budget deficits; time-series methods
 
 
JEL classification: H62; H60; C32