Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Authors

• Yadollah Dadgar ¹
• Rouhollah Nazari ²

¹ Associate Professor of Economics, Beheshty University

² Economic Researcher.

Abstract

One of the most well known methods for explaining the growth in public sector is Wagner's law, which explains the growth of government size. Wagner argues that the more per capita income in economy, the bigger would be the government size. Using panel data method, this paper is analyzing Wagner's law for Iran and southeastern Asian countries .The results confirm the consistency of Wagner's law for both Iran and those selected countries.

Keywords

• Growth of Public Sector
• Wagner's Law
• Iran