Oil Price Shocks and Economic Growth in Oil-Exporting Countries : Does the Size of Government Matter? /

This paper examines the impact of government size on how output and government expenditure respond to oil price shocks in 28 oil-exporting countries between 1990 and 2016. Results suggest that if the size of government (measured by government expenditure-to-(non-oil) GDP ratio) is larger, non-oil ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sadeghi, Amir
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/287
Online Access:Full text available on IMF