Relationship between public expenditures and public revenues in Turkey

In this study, the causality relationship between public expenditures and public revenues is analyzed. Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model and Toda-Yamamoto causality approach are used in the analysis for the sample period of 2006:Q1-2018:Q4. Empirical results show that there is co-integration and unidirectional causality relationship between these variables, which supports the Spend-and-Tax Hypothesis. Keywords: Public Expenditure, Public Revenue, Unit Root Test, Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model, Bounds Test, Co-integration, Error Correction Model, TodaYamamoto Causality Analysis, Spend-and-Tax Hypothesis