Empirical Analysis of Wagner’s Law for the Spain’s Regions

Abizadeh, S. Y., Gray, J. (1985). Wagner’s law: A pooled time-series, cross-section comparison. National Tax Journal 38 (2), pp. 209-218.
Abizadeh, S. Y., Yousefi, M. (1988). An empirical re-examination of Wagner’s law. Economic Letters 26, pp. 169-73.
Akitoby, B., Clemens, B., Gupta, S., Y., Inchauste, G. (2006). Public spending, voracity and Wagner’s law in developing countries, European Journal or Political Economy 22, pp. 908-924.
Andic, S. Y., Veverka, J. (1964). The growth of government expenditure in Germany since the unification, Finanzarchiv. Vol. 23, pp. 189-278.
Beck, M. (1976). The expanding public sector: some contrary evidence, National Tax Journal 29, pp. 15-21.
Beck, M. (1981). Government spending. Trends and issues, New York, Praeger.
Bird, R. M. (1971). Wagner’s law of expanding state activity, Public Finance 26(1), pp. 1-26.
Biswal, B,, Dhawan, U. Y., Lee, H. (1999). Testing Wagner versus Keynes using disaggregated public expenditure data for Canada, Applied Economics, no. 31, pp. 1283-1291.
Brennan, G. Y., Buchanan, J. M. (1980). The power to tax: Analytical foundation of a fiscal constitution, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press.
Buchanan, J. M. Y., Flowers, M. R. (1980). The public finances: An introductory textbook, Homewood, I.L.: Irwin.
Buchanan, J. M. Y., Tullock, G. (1977). The expanding public sector: Wagner squared, Public Choice, 31, pp. 147-150.
Burney, N. (2002). Wagner’s hypothesis: Evidence from Kuwait using cointegration tests, Applied Economics, Vol. 34(1), pp. 49-58.
Burney, N. Y., Mussalam, N. (1999). Wagner’s law and public expenditure growth in Kuwait, OPEC Review June 1999, pp. 139-171.
Chang, T. (2002). An econometric test of Wagner’s law for six countries based in cointegration and error-correction modeling techniques, Applied Economics Vol. 34, pp. 1157-1169.
Chang, T., Liu, W. Y., Caudill, S. B. (2004). A re-examination of Wagner’s law for ten countries based on cointegration and error-correction modeling techniques, Applied Financial Economics, 14, pp. 577-589.
Chrystal, A. Y., Alt, J. (1979). Endogenous government behavior: Wagner’s law or götterdämmerung? S.T. Cook y P.M. Jackson, eds. Current Issues in Fiscal Policy. Oxford. Martin Robertson.
Gandhi, V. (1971). Wagner’s law of public expenditure: Do recent cross-section studies confirm it?, Public Finance Vol. 26(1), pp. 44-56.
Gemmell, N. (1990). Wagner’s law, relative prices and the size of the public sector, The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 58, pp. 361-377.
Gemmell, N. (1993). Wagner’s law and Musgrave’s hypotheses en Gemmell (ed): The Growth of Public Sector, E. Elgar P.L.
Goffmann, I. J. Y., Maher, D. J. (1971). The growth of public expenditures in selected developing nations: Six Caribbean countries, Public Finance 26, (1), pp. 1-26.
Goffmann, I. J. (1968). On the empirical testing of Wagner’s law: A technical note, Public Finance 23(3), pp. 359-64.
Gray, V. (1976). Models of comparative state politics: A comparison of cross-sectional and time series analysis, American Journal of Political Science 20(2), pp. 235-256.
Gupta. (1967). Public expenditure and economic growth: A time series analysis, Public Finance, 22(4), pp. 423-461.
Henning, J. A. Y., Tussing, A. D. (1974). Income elasticity of the demand for public expenditures in the United States, Public Finance 29 (3-4), pp. 325-341.
Henrekson, M. (1991). Wagner’s law en Henrekson, M.: An Economic Analysis of Swedish Government Expenditure, UMI. Ann Arbor USA.
Henrekson, M. (1993). Wagner’s law- a spurious relationship?, Public Finance 48 (2), pp. 406-415.
Herber, B. P. (1967, 1975). Modern Public Finance, 2ª y 3ª edic. Homewood, III. Richard D. Irwin.
Hondroyiannis, G. Y. E. P. (1995). An examination of Wagner’s law for Greece: A cointegration analysis, Public Finance 50 (81), pp. 67-79
Jaen, M. (2004). La ley de Wagner. Un análisis sintetico, Papeles de trabajo del Instituto de estudios fiscales num. 6/2004.
Karagianni, S., Pempetzoglou, M. Y., Strikou, S. (2002). Testing Wagner’s law for linear and no linear causality in the EU economies, Journal of Applied Business Research Vol. 18(4), pp. 107-115.
Lamartina, S. Y., Zaghini, A. (2008). Increasing public expenditures: Wagner’s law in OECD countries, CFS Working Paper Series 2008/13.
Legrenzi, G. (2000). The long-run relationship between public sector size and economic growth: Income-elasticity and causality of the Italian general government expenditure (1861-1998), International Review of Economics and Business Vol. 43, 3 pp. 415-438.
Lowery, D. Y., Berry, W. (1983). The growth of governments in the United States: An empirical assessment of competing explanations, American Journal of Political Science, 27, pp. 665-694.
Mann, A. J. (1980). Wagner’s law: An econometric test for Mexico, 1925-1976, National Tax Journal 33(2), pp. 189-201.
Martin, A. Y., Lewis, W. A. (1956). Structures of public revenues and expenditures, Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies Vol. 24, pp. 203-232.
Michas, N. A. (1975). Wagner’s law of public expenditure: What is the appropriate measurement for a valid test?, Public Finance 30, pp. 77-84.
Murthy, N. (1993). Further evidence of Wagner’s law for Mexico: An application of cointegration analysis, Public Finance 48 (1), pp. 92-96.
Musgrave, R. A. Y., Peacock, A. (ed.) (1958). Classic in the theory of public finance, McMillan Press Ltd. London.
Musgrave, R.A. (1970). Fiscal systems, New Haven and London. Yale University Press.
Narayan, P. K., Nielsen, I. Y., Smyth, R. (2008). Panel data, cointegration, causality and Wagner’s law: empirical evidence from Chinese provinces, China Economic Review 19, pp. 297-307
Oxley, L. (1994). Cointegration, causality and Wagner’s law: A test for Britain 1870-1913, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 41 (3), pp. 286-298.
Peacock, A. Y. J. W. (1967). The growth of public expenditure in the United Kingdom, George Allen and Unwin, London.
Peacock, A. (1992). Public choice analysis in historical perspective, Cambridge University Press.
Peacock, A. Y., Scott, A. (2000). The curious attraction of Wagner’s law, Public Choice 102, pp. 1-17.
Ram, R. (1987). Wagner’s hypothesis in time-series and cross-section perspectives: evidence from “real” data for 115 countries, Review of Economics and Statistics 62(2), pp. 194-204.
Thorn, R. (1967). The evolution of public finances during economic development, The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies Vol. 35, pp. 19-35.
Tim, H. (1961). Das Gesetz der wachsenden Staatsausgaben, Finanzarchiv, Heft 2, pp. 201-247.
Wahab, M. (2004). Economic growth and government expenditure: evidence from a new test specification, Applied economics, 36, pp. 2125-2135.
Wagner, A. (1890). Finanzwissenchaft, 3ª edicion Leipzig in R.A. Musgrave and A.T. Peacock eds (1958) Classics in the Theory of Public Finance, London, Macmillan.
Williamson, J. G. (1961). Public expenditure and revenue: An international comparison, Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 28, pp. 43-56.

In-Text Citation: (Jaen-Garcia, 2011)
To Cite this Article: Jaen-Garcia, M. (2011). Empirical Analysis of Wagner’s Law for the Spain’s Regions. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting Finance and Management Sciences, 1(1), 1–21.

Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)
Published by HRMARS (www.hrmars.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode