%0 Journal Article
%T BEYOND GUNS AND BUTTER: Finnish Central Government Spending Patterns the in Twentieth Century
%A Jari Eloranta
%A Jari Kauppila
%J Essays in Economic & Business History
%D 2008
%I The Economic & Business History Society
%X This paper explains the long-run demand for central government spending in Finland by analyzing quantitative and qualitative changes in the spending behavior, examining possible links between variables in a VAR-framework, and performing multivariate analysis of the demand factors. The results was shoved that a explained  by a lack of military versus social spending tradeoff effect. Even though certain other variables were found to be relevant in explaining this demand, this lack of a tradeoff increased the Finnish spending levels substantially during the twentieth centurt welfare state expansion.
%U http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/8