The Relationship Between Growth, Expenditure, and Income Fiscal Policy in Turkey: ARDL-ECM Model
Abstract
The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of public revenues and expenditures on economic growth, topic that is often discussed in the theory of finance. For this purpose, rather than use total public revenues and expenditures, in the analysis, their components were used. The components of public revenues include tax revenues, non-tax ordinary revenues, factor revenues, and social funds. The components of public expenditures include current expenditures, investment expenditures, and transfer expenditures are used as components of public expenditures. This study examines the effect of fiscal policies on economic growth in Turkey. For this purpose, the effects of public revenue and expenditure components on gross domestic product growth between 1999 and 2019. The autoregressive distributed lag error correction (ARDL-ECM) model -was used to estimate the short- and long-term coefficients of the variables on growth. According to the findings, a one-unit increase in tax revenues, non-tax ordinary incomes, factor incomes, and social funds affects economic growth by 4.90, -0.71, 3.64, and 0.63 units, respectively. In terms of public expenditures, current expenditures and transfer expenditures affect economic growth by 2.41 and -1.85 units, respectively. In addition, the deviation from a short-term balance in terms of public revenues is approximately 1.6; Public expenditures, reach a long-term balance by improving in 3.33 years. The long-term effect of public investment expenditures on economic growth was statistically insignificant.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Economics
Journal Section
Research Article
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Publication Date
April 28, 2022
Submission Date
December 7, 2021
Acceptance Date
February 2, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 0 Number: 67