Abstract
Contrary to the claims that the economic growth of countries increase the public expenditures, there are also arguments on the growth of public expenditures increase the economic growth and this conflict covers a significant place in economic literature.
As a result of these discussions, it is necessary to examine the causality between the concepts of economic growth and public expenditure. From this point of view, the present study was carried out to investigate the causality relationship between public spending and economic growth between 1999 and 2017.
Within this context, the former literature is summarized, data were collected and ADF test, Johansen Cointegration Test and Granger Causality Tests were performed on the data. When the results of the analysis were evaluated, findings were found to have similar characteristics to previous studies on the subject and empirical findings were obtained that the Wagner model was valid for the years covered for the country's economy but the Keynes model was also valid for investment expenditures