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Growth Effects of Public Expenditure on the State and Local Level : Evidence from a Sample of Rich Governments

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2005

There is a vast empirical literature investigating the relationship between government size and economic growth. But the empirical evidence of growth effects of public expenditure using cross-country regressions is still inconclusive. According to a number of authors this is not surprising since...

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The effects of direct democracy on stock market risk and returns : an event study from Switzerland

Morley, Bruce - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-13

both the market's return and volatility. The results suggest that the day after the referendum, there was little evidence … of a positive effect on stock returns. However, using a longer window of three days before and after the referendum …, there was evidence of a positive effect from the referendum on the market's returns and a negative effect on its volatility …

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What Does it Take to Sell Environmental Policy? An Empirical Analysis of Referendum Data

Halbheer, Daniel - 2012

We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that … associations, if environmental preferences are strong and economic conditions are favorable at the time of the referendum. Also …

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Budget referendums and government spending : evidence from Swiss

Feld, Lars P.; Matsusaka, John G. - 2000

New government spending must be approved by a referendum of citizens in many Swiss cantons. This decisionmaking …

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Switzerland : Growth of Government, Growth of Centralisation

Curzon-Price, Victoria - 2004

Switzerland has a tradition of decentralised government, decentralised tax setting and direct reference to the voters through referendums. Such mechanisms should give rise to lower taxes, better provision of public goods and higher economic growth. However, these mechanisms have not been...

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Protestantism and government spendig : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss Cantons

Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor); … - 2007

Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...

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Protestantism and government spending : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss cantons

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2008

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Protestantism and Government Spending : A Negative Relationship? An Empirical Application to Swiss Cantons

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

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The determinants of Islamophobia : an empirical analysis of the Swiss minaret referendum

Orlanski, Olga; Schulze, Günther G. - 2017

We analyze the determinants of Islamophobia using the only nation-wide anti-Islam referendum ever, which was held in … referendum with the referendum "for democratic naturalizations", held in 2008, in order to disentangle determinants of …

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Wagner's law for low income states in India

Rastogi, Rashmi; Chakravarty, Sangeeta; Pradhan, Basanta K. - 2019

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