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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

   Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth

   Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1990

   Barro extends endogenous-growth models to include tax-financed government services that affect production or utility, and finds some support for the hypotheses in cross-country evidence.

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   1. UncheckedIn this growth model, utility-type government spending lowers growth and saving, while productive spending first raises them and later lowers them.“Growth and saving rates fall with an increase in utility-type expenditures; the two rates rise initially with productive government expenditures but subsequently decline.”
   2. Unchecked“With an income tax, the decentralized choices of growth and saving are "too low," but if the production function is Cobb-Douglas, the optimizing government still satisfies a natural condition for productive efficiency.”