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Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions: A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism

Thomsson, Kaj - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...

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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries.

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Empirical studies of the relation between government size and economic growth come to widely different conclusions. In part this may reflect the fact that many studies report regressions that contain severe multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, simultaneity and other specification problems....

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Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Bergh, Andreas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

approach—of limiting the focus to studies of the relationship in rich countries, measuring government size as total taxes or … explanations of why several countries with high taxes seem able to enjoy above average growth: (i) that countries with higher … large governments compensate for high taxes and spending by implementing market-friendly policies in other areas. Both …

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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies: A Critical Appraisal of Colombier’s (2009) Study

Bergh, Andreas; Öhrn, Nina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

In a recent paper, Colombier (2009) uses a robust estimation technique and claims to find empirical evidence that government size has not been detrimental to growth for OECD countries during the 1970 to 2001 period, and that endogenous growth theory is not corroborated. We examine the robustness...

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An Essay on Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The expansion of welfare-state arrangements is seen as the result of dynamic interaction between market behaviour and political behaviour, often with considerable time lags, sometimes generating either virtuous or vicious circles. Such interaction may also involve induced (endogenous) changes in...

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