In this article, we empirically gauge the government revenue-expenditure
nexus for a state. Employing Granger-causality and vector autoregression
techniques, our stylized results indicate that state revenues cause state expenditures. Furthermore, we find that federal grants are not a significant perma nent source of exogenous shock.
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