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Government size, trade openness, and output volatility : a case of fully integrated economies

Fujii, Eiji - 2015 - This version: October 2015

markets to insure themselves. In this paper we examine the relationship between government size, trade openness, and output …

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Fiscal rules and government size in the European Union

Mierau, Jochen O.; Andreu, Eduard Suari - 2014

This paper studies the impact of national fiscal rules on government size as measured by the ratio of government expenditures to gross domestic product. We develop a model of the budgetary process and show that a common pool problem may arise which can be mitigated through fiscal rules. We test...

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Size matters : corruption perceptions versus corruption experiences by firms

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Ram, Rati - 2021

This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...

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Population size and the size of government

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2019

We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly specified and fail to consider the influence of cross-sectional...

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On the relationship between trade openness and government size

Farhad, Mohammad; Jetter, Michael - 2019

Does trade openness systematically imply bigger governments, as proposed by Rodrik (1998)? This paper presents a novel … openness is associated with bigger governments if (i) the price volatility of a country's export basket is substantial and (ii … economic affairs and housing increases significantly with trade openness, whereas public spending on education, health care …

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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 empirical estimates retrieved from 44 primary papers published from 1998 to 2022. We find considerable heterogeneity in the results, mainly depending on whether the paper is published...

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Do pilot and demonstration projects work?

Blackburn, Christopher J.; Flowers, Mallory E.; … - 2018

Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly understood in terms of mechanism and impact. We conceptually distinguish unique functions of pilots and demonstrations, then examine whether they accelerate green building...

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On the determinants of labour market institutions : rent-sharing vs. social insurance

Agell, Jonas - 2000

What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...

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Globalisation and the slope of the Phillips curve

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021

We study the effects of globalisation on the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve for CPI inflation, based on a broad panel of 35 countries and controlling for possibly non-linear exchange rate effects. We find that the output gap generally has a significant positive effect on inflation,...

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Revisiting the relationship between trade liberalization and taxation

Arezki, Rabah; Dama, Alou Adessé; Graziosi, Grégoire Rota - 2021

This paper explores the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on tax revenue using a worldwide panel dataset. Results point to statistically significant negative effect of liberalization on (non- resource) tax revenues in the short term and no significant effect in the medium term....

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