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Political determinants of social expenditures in Greece: an empirical analysis
Ebru Canikalp*
Ebru Canikalp
Affiliation: Cukurova University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Finance, Saricam, Adana, Turkey
0000-0001-9071-4565
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ecanikalp@cu.edu.tr
Ilter Unlukaplan
Ilter Unlukaplan
Affiliation: Cukurova University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Finance, Saricam, Adana, Turkey
0000-0002-5420-3642
Preliminary communication | Year: 2017 | Pages: 359 - 377 | Volume: 41 | Issue: 3 Received: June 28, 2017 | Accepted: July 28, 2017 | Published online: September 15, 2017
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Source: OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX).
 Source: The description of the first four data is taken from Comparative Political Data Set (CPDS).
Variable | Model | t | Decision | | 1 | -4.654 | | s.g. | 2 | . | I(0) | | 3 | . | | | 1 | -2.513545 | | rae_ele | 2 | . | I(0) | | 3 | . | | | 1 | -4.826855 | | lnvturn | 2 | . | I(0) | | 3 | . | | | 1 | -3.080879 | | lneld | 2 | . | I(0) | | 3 | . | | | 1 | -2.680364 | | lndebt | 2 | -3.503574 | I(0) | | 3 | . | | | 1 | -3.112278 | | deficit | 2 | -3.2256 | I(0) | | 3 | . | |
Dependent Variable: S_G | | | | Method: Least Squares | | | | Variable | Coefficient | Std. Error | t-Statistic | Prob. | | | | | | RAE_ELE | -2.435857 | 5.75313 | -0.4234 | 0.6761 | LNVTURN | 6.08249 | 3.363023 | -1.80864 | 0.0842* | LNELD | 6.147901 | 2.05862 | 2.986418 | 0.0068** | LNDEBT | -1.906858 | 0.542357 | -3.51587 | 0.0019** | GOV_PARTY | -0.182318 | 0.0962 | -1.8952 | 0.0713* | GOV_GAP | 0.179376 | 0.116882 | 1.534672 | 0.1391 | GOV_CHAN | 0.57489 | 0.334313 | 1.719615 | 0.0995* | ELECT | -0.370399 | 0.495769 | -0.74712 | 0.4629 | DEFICIT | -0.057642 | 0.061587 | -0.93595 | 0.3595 | C | 20.36487 | 16.00783 | 1.272182 | 0.2166 | R-squared | 0.587768 | Mean dependent var | 0.565625 | Adjusted R-squared | 0.419128 | S.D. dependent var | 0.860086 | S.E. of regression | 0.655514 | Akaike info criterion | 2.243514 | Sum squared resid | 9.453381 | Schwarz criterion | 2.701556 | Log likelihood | -25.89622 | Hannan-Quinn criter. | 2.395342 | F-statistic | 3.485334 | Durbin-Watson stat | 2.365126 | Prob(F-statistic) | 0.008095 | | | |
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