This study empirically explores the relationship between terrorism and the media in selected South Asian countries. Using Negative Binomial Regression, the results indicate that freedom of media has actually been used by militants to their benefit in inciting more terrorism in the region. Hence,...

We examine the optimal tax rule in an endogenous growth model with public capital and wealth-enhanced social status. When government expenditure is productive, the equality of marginal productivities of private and public capital holds. Wealth-induced preference can violate this equality, since...

Using Japanese macroeconomic data over 1980:Q1-2010:Q1, we estimate their time-varying seasonal components and investigate the impact of public investment smoothing on the construction industry. It is shown that the seasonal fluctuations of public investment had faded away after the collapse of...

In an endogenous growth model with two public goods, we analytically derive the optimal composition of government spending in the presence of corruption. Although corruption results in a loss of productivity per se, an increase in corruption in the category of public spending that is harmed...

The paper analyzes the financial sustainability of private pay-as-you-go pension funds, focusing on the particular demographic risks affecting these institutions. We propose a model to describe the evolution of these pension funds, including two stochastic variables: â€global asset...

This paper attempts to analyze the causal relationship between central government revenue and expenditure for India using annual data over the period 1970-2010. The Johansen cointegration test suggests that there is a long-run relationship among the variables. The result from Granger causality...

Theoretical and empirical studies addressing the effectiveness issue of the wage subsidy scheme are somewhat non-concluding. This paper attempts to contribute to the recent litterature of the field by studying the effectiveness of wage subsidies and by comparing their consequences with those...

Kneller et al. (1999) examined the predictions of the public-policy endogenous growth models of Barro (1990) and others that suggest that unlike distortionary taxation and productive expenditures, nondistortionary taxation and nonproductive expenditures have no direct effect on the rate of...

This paper examines the cyclicality of Japanese public investment for the prefectural-level business cycles as well as for the aggregate ones. We estimate the public investment reaction function, in which regional business cycles are explicitly discriminated from national business fluctuations...

The present paper studies the provision of big and inefficient public investments in proprietary states. By means of these investments, whose rate of return is either nil or negative, an incumbent dictator can transfer resources to his/her supporters and obtain a head-start advantage in the...