Trends in the size of U.S. government are examined. In the postwar period, general government primary spending rose by … view of the size of government. Looking forward, the retirement of baby boomers appears likely to expand government and …

models and supportive empirical evidence for the causal relations between economic uncertainty and government size in the … open economy setting. Key empirical findings include: (1) a larger government reduces economic uncertainty, and, at the … same time, (2) an economy facing higher uncertainty has a larger government. However, (3) the government tends to resort to …

functions across government levels—and government size in Moldova. The empirical results—based on data for a cross-section of … undergoing unprecedented reform of its system of intergovernmental fiscal relations, and consolidation of its local government …. This reform package is crucial to ensure that decentralization does not increase the size of government …

of taxes on labor supply, but also finds evidence of efficiency-increasing government intervention. However, and … especially in the core ""Rhineland-model"" European countries, actual government policies often depart from such efficient …

affecting its economic stability and the government’s size relative to output …

raises the scale of government. This paper presents new evidence on this and related predictions from a cross-section of city … larger expenditures per capita. Evidence also suggests that forms of government with strong executives, particularly those … with veto powers, break the link between districting and government size …

This paper assesses changes in the size and scope of government in 24 transition economies. Whereas these governments … noncash transactions). At the same time, the scope of government activities-although evolving-has not necessarily become … appropriate. This paper provides some recommendations for aligning the scope of government with the increasing market orientation …

Using a new fiscal dataset for small states, this paper analyzes the link between country size, government size, debt …