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Beschreibung:
Saudi Arabia, a major oil exporting country, adopted an ambitious plan known as 2030 Vision to diversify its economy through dramatic increases in domestic investment. However, with oil remaining at modest to low prices by recent historical standards, it is important to study the implications of oil price negative shocks to key macroeconomic variables. This paper investigates the effect of oil price shocks on government expenditures. By allowing for the theoretical plausibility of asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on fiscal policy, our research suggests that nothing can guarantee linearity of the impacts of oil prices positive and negative shocks to government expenditures. For this purpose, we use a quarterly dataset 1990Q-2017Q2 on government expenditures on health and education sectors, and apply a non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model. Our key findings show evidence of a non-linear relationship between oil prices and government expenditures in Saudi Arabia, where a negative oil price shock would have a statistically significant different impact in the long run compared to a positive shock. Finally, we build upon our empirical findings and draw some policy recommendations for the 2030 Vision