...Naser Yenus Nuru; Mola Gebremeskel Zeratsion Purpose The main aim of this study is to examine the effect of government spending and its components' shocks on the distribution of income between labour and capital in South Africa for the period between 1994Q2 and 2019Q3. Design/methodology...

...Hiluf Techane Gidey; Naser Yenus Nuru Purpose Government spending has inconclusive effect on real exchange rate. From the very beginning neoclassical economists argued that a rise in government spending brings depreciation in real exchange rate while neo-Keynesians claimed that government spending...

...Naser Yenus Nuru; Hayelom Yrgaw Gereziher Purpose The main purpose of this study is to investigate the short-run and long-run asymmetric effects of fiscal policy, namely government spending on economic growth over the sample period 2004Q2 up to 2018Q1 for the South African economy. Design...

...Olumide Olusegun Olaoye; Ukafor Ukafor Okorie; Oluwatosin Odunayo Eluwole; Mahmood Butt Fawwad Purpose This study examines the asymmetric effect of government spending on economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1980–2017. Specifically, this study investigates whether the response of economic...