“…As shown in the literature review section, government spending is heavily dependent on the oil sector in oil exporting countries, (some indicative studies include Dées et al, 2008;Farzanegan and Markwardt, 2009;Hamdi and Sbia, 2013). Therefore, the government spending behaviour can be significantly changed based on any change in oil prices and associated increase or decrease in oil price volatility (Fasano-Filho and Wang, 2002;Bondzie et al, 2014;Pazouki and Pazouki, 2014). Fig.…”