Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach

The 2008 global financial crisis and the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have attracted interest in the issue of fiscal policy. Since fiscal policy plays an important role in alleviating the costs of these crises, understanding the relationships between fiscal policy components is crucia...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Pourmohammadi, zohre tabatabaienasab, Yhya Abtahi, Mohammad Ali Dehqantafti
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Published: Tarbiat Modares University 2022-09-01
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Online Access:http://ecor.modares.ac.ir/article-18-60198-en.pdf
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author Ahmad Pourmohammadi
zohre tabatabaienasab
Yhya Abtahi
Mohammad Ali Dehqantafti
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Yhya Abtahi
Mohammad Ali Dehqantafti
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description The 2008 global financial crisis and the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have attracted interest in the issue of fiscal policy. Since fiscal policy plays an important role in alleviating the costs of these crises, understanding the relationships between fiscal policy components is crucial and has important implications for choosing fiscal policies in the field of public economics. This study aims to examine the causal links between the fiscal policy components, i.e., government expenditures (current and development) and government revenues (tax and oil) in Iran, using quarterly data for the period of 1990:2-2019:1. For this purpose, first, we employ the time domain Toda-Yamamoto causality test to check the causal relationship among these variables. Then, due to the various characteristics of variables in the frequency bands, we implement a dynamic analysis through wavelet coherence approach and wavelet phase-difference in order to explore the joint time-frequency domain causal relationship between government revenues and expenditure categories. The results of the wavelet analysis show that the linkage between the government revenues and expenditures pairs is not the same across all time horizons and a strong heterogeneity in the revealed interrelationships is detected over time and across scales. Overall, the results reveal various causal effects and confirm the expenditure dominance hypothesis for oil revenue, and revenue dominance hypothesis for tax revenue at different frequencies.
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spelling doaj.art-5276bdab9b104498b9d39696158406e62023-06-15T20:26:27ZfasTarbiat Modares Universityپژوهشهای اقتصادی1735-67682980-78322022-09-01223103128Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet ApproachAhmad Pourmohammadi0zohre tabatabaienasab1Yhya Abtahi2Mohammad Ali Dehqantafti3 Ph.D. Student of Economics, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Assistant Professor of Economics, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Assistant Professor of Economics, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Assistant Professor of Economics, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran The 2008 global financial crisis and the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have attracted interest in the issue of fiscal policy. Since fiscal policy plays an important role in alleviating the costs of these crises, understanding the relationships between fiscal policy components is crucial and has important implications for choosing fiscal policies in the field of public economics. This study aims to examine the causal links between the fiscal policy components, i.e., government expenditures (current and development) and government revenues (tax and oil) in Iran, using quarterly data for the period of 1990:2-2019:1. For this purpose, first, we employ the time domain Toda-Yamamoto causality test to check the causal relationship among these variables. Then, due to the various characteristics of variables in the frequency bands, we implement a dynamic analysis through wavelet coherence approach and wavelet phase-difference in order to explore the joint time-frequency domain causal relationship between government revenues and expenditure categories. The results of the wavelet analysis show that the linkage between the government revenues and expenditures pairs is not the same across all time horizons and a strong heterogeneity in the revealed interrelationships is detected over time and across scales. Overall, the results reveal various causal effects and confirm the expenditure dominance hypothesis for oil revenue, and revenue dominance hypothesis for tax revenue at different frequencies.http://ecor.modares.ac.ir/article-18-60198-en.pdffiscal policygovernment revenues and expenditurestoda-yamamoto causalitywavelet coherencephase differences
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zohre tabatabaienasab
Yhya Abtahi
Mohammad Ali Dehqantafti
Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
پژوهشهای اقتصادی
fiscal policy
government revenues and expenditures
toda-yamamoto causality
wavelet coherence
phase differences
title Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
title_full Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
title_fullStr Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
title_full_unstemmed Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
title_short Dynamics of Causality Relationships between Fiscal Policy Components: New Evidence from Wavelet Approach
title_sort dynamics of causality relationships between fiscal policy components new evidence from wavelet approach
topic fiscal policy
government revenues and expenditures
toda-yamamoto causality
wavelet coherence
phase differences
url http://ecor.modares.ac.ir/article-18-60198-en.pdf
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