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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
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The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis
Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024
We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …
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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157329
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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013
We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765517
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The marginal cost of public funds : a brief guide
Bastani, Spencer - 2023
taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on either its definition or its quantification. The purpose of this paper is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234016
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Constitutional determinants of government spending
Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2000
corruption, the features of electoral cycles. The paper discusses both theory and evidence, and concludes with some speculations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781540
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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods
Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399681
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Fiscal policy and the banking system in Italy : have taxes, public spending and banks been procyclical in the long-run?
Piluso, Giandomenico (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the relations between the banking system fluctuations, on one hand, and taxation and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779453
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The macroeconomic effects of funding U.S. infrastructure
Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2022
This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801569
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A snapshot of public finance research from immediately prior to the pandemic : IIPF 2020
Agrawal, David R.; Davies, Ronald B.; LaLumia, Sara; … - 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped public policies and government finances, it has also influenced the topics that public finance economists are researching. Because the 2020 International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) Congress featured papers that were submitted prior to the start of the...
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