000084745 001__ 84745 000084745 005__ 20200716101544.0 000084745 0248_ $$2sideral$$a114092 000084745 037__ $$aART-2019-114092 000084745 041__ $$aeng 000084745 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8996-1750$$aBandrés, Eduardo$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000084745 245__ $$aInvestigating causal relations between public spending and economic growth in Europe [Gasto público y crecimiento económico en Europa: Investigando sus relaciones de causalidad] 000084745 260__ $$c2019 000084745 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000084745 5203_ $$aThe link between economic growth and the size of the public sector has fuelled one of the most wide-ranging debates in economic literature and the empirical evidence is far from conclusive. With different techniques that encompass both country-to-country causality analysis with VAR models and standard and grouped panels, we study this relationship for a sample of 25 countries from the 1960s to the present. Our contribution is fundamentally methodological, overcoming several pitfalls of the previous literature, namely, endogeneity, dynamic effects and common patterns. The results do not support the fulfilment of the Wagner’s Law and a negative effect of public size on economic growth is highlighted. 000084745 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2017-83255-C3-1-P$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2017-83255-C3-3-P 000084745 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000084745 590__ $$a0.26$$b2019 000084745 591__ $$aECONOMICS$$b364 / 371 = 0.981$$c2019$$dQ4$$eT3 000084745 592__ $$a0.164$$b2019 000084745 593__ $$aHistory$$c2019$$dQ2 000084745 593__ $$aPolitical Science and International Relations$$c2019$$dQ3 000084745 593__ $$aSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)$$c2019$$dQ3 000084745 593__ $$aGeography, Planning and Development$$c2019$$dQ4 000084745 593__ $$aTransportation$$c2019$$dQ4 000084745 593__ $$aEconomics and Econometrics$$c2019$$dQ4 000084745 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000084745 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-6609-4247$$aGadea, María Dolores$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000084745 7102_ $$14008$$2225$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb.$$cÁrea Economía Aplicada 000084745 773__ $$g2019, 51 (2019), 51-78$$pRev. econ. mund.$$tREVISTA DE ECONOMIA MUNDIAL$$x1576-0162 000084745 85641 $$uhttp://www.sem-wes.org/sites/default/files/revistas/REM51%20cap2.pdf$$zTexto completo de la revista 000084745 8564_ $$s13552029$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/84745/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000084745 8564_ $$s27979$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/84745/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000084745 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:84745$$particulos$$pdriver 000084745 951__ $$a2020-07-16-09:42:20 000084745 980__ $$aARTICLE