The effectiveness of some macroeconomic variables and their reflection on the general budget deficit in Iraq for the period (2004-2020)

Abstract

The research aims to study some macroeconomic variables and their relationship to the general budget deficit in the Iraqi economy, in addition to building a standard model in order to measure and analyze the relationship between some macroeconomic variables and the budget deficit in the Iraqi economy for the period (2004-2020). The research relied on the descriptive approach and the quantitative approach based on econometrics through the application of modern standard methods, as the methodology of the Autoregressive Distributed Deceleration Model (ARDL) was used, and the quarterly data was used for the period (2004-2020) through the use of the statistical program (Eviews 10).