Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Fiscal Policy Author(s) Lucie Sedmihradska University of Economics of Prague Praha Czech Republic Izak Vratislav, Title The welfare state and economic growth? File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The proposed paper will first, summarize the outcomes of the research project “Public expenditures in the post-socialist members of the European Union” supported by the Czech science foundation and second, serve as an introduction paper to the first meeting of the new WG on fiscal policy. The paper explores dynamics and composition of public expenditures, with special focus on welfare expenditures, since the mid of 1990s and its relation to the economic growth. Various types of econometric analysis.Due to the differences among countries fixed effect is included in the model using panel data.