Crivelli, Ernesto; Leive, Adam; Stratmann, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Government spending on health has grown as a percent of GDP over the last 40 years in industrialized countries …. Widespread decentralization of healthcare systems has often accompanied this increase in spending. In this paper, we explore the … effect of soft budget constraints on subnational health spending in a sample of OECD countries. We find countries where …