Pierre-Guillaume Méon Universite libre de Bruxelles   Université Libre de Bruxelles Dulbéa CP-140 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 Bruxelles, 1050 Belgium   pgmeon@ulb.ac.be             JEL Areas: E : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics H5 : National Government Expenditures and Related Policies National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General