Analyzing the Impact of Governance Quality and Composition of Public Expenditures on Economic Growth in Iran: An Endogenous Growth Approach

Strong democratic institutions and improving the quality of governance by restructuring government spending and reducing government rents can facilitate the process of technological change, economic growth and improvement of economic performance. Thus, in the relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth in endogenous growth models, attention to the size, role and quality of governance is very important. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of governance quality and composition of government expenditures on the dynamics of capital, consumption and economic growth within the framework of an endogenous growth pattern in Iran's economy. Therefore, after specifying the dynamic behavior of capital stock per capita, output and consumption per capita, calibration and sensitivity analysis was carried out with respect to the quality of governance. The results indicated that the quality of governance by influencing the structure of government spending and reducing government rents increased capital per capita, output per capita, consumption per capita and welfare in the steady state.