Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107948 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] Romanian Journal of Fiscal Policy (RJFP) [ISSN:] 2069-0983 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Editura ASE [Place:] Bucharest [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 1-26
Publisher: 
Editura ASE, Bucharest
Abstract: 
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between tax revenue and government spending in order to make some policy suggestions on how to achieve fiscal discipline in Turkey. We have used the cointegrated vector autoregression (VAR) method along with the Granger causality test (1969). The empirical findings indicate that there is a uni-directional causality running from spending to tax revenue. In other words, our findings support the spend-and-tax hypothesis for fiscal discipline in Turkey over the period of 1975 - 2011. Since there is a uni-directional causality, running from government spending to tax revenue, spending restrictions are required to reduce budget deficits, and reducing government spending is a better solution than increasing tax revenue to obtain optimal fiscal discipline in Turkey.
Subjects: 
Fiscal Discipline
Fiscal Policy
Government Revenue
Government Expenditure
Causality Test
JEL: 
E62
H62
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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