Government Revenues and Expenditures in Guinea-Bissau: Causality and Cointegration

African Region Working Paper No. 65

19 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2004

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Francisco Carneiro

The World Bank

Joao Ricardo Faria

Florida Atlantic University; Florida Atlantic University

Boubacar Sid Barry

World Bank - AFTP4

Date Written: January 2004

Abstract

The paper establishes empirically the temporal causality and long run relationship between government expenditures and government revenues for the case of Guinea-Bissau - a low income country under stress (LICUS) in Africa. A simple macroeconomic model is developed to lay out the hypothesis of a spend-tax behavior in the country's public finances management system. Empirical validation is carried out by means of a traditional Granger-causality test and the estimation of a simple error correction model between expenditures and revenues.

Keywords: Public finances, causality tests, cointegration analysis

JEL Classification: H6, C5

Suggested Citation

Carneiro, Francisco Galrao and Faria, Joao Ricardo and Faria, Joao Ricardo and Barry, Boubacar Sid, Government Revenues and Expenditures in Guinea-Bissau: Causality and Cointegration (January 2004). African Region Working Paper No. 65, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=574143 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.574143

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