We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...

This study investigates whether net inbound migration and per capita income growth of a municipality is affected when a local sports team enters or exits the premium national leagues in ice hockey or soccer in Sweden. Local governments frequently support a local professional team through direct...

In this paper, we examine the role of spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by accounting for spatial effects. Such spatial effects in growth for the MENA countries may arise on the basis of geography, bilateral trade or institutional similarities. We...

Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...

Even though Bangladesh has made progress towards reaching some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is still a major challenge for the government to further reduce poverty and improve human developments, in particular achieving a 100 percent primary-school completion rate. As foreign...

Eine moderne öffentliche Infrastruktur ist die Grundlage einer leistungsfähigen Volkswirtschaft. Immer wieder ist in diesem Kontext von einer öffentlichen Investitionsschwäche die Rede. Mitunter wird angesichts negativer Nettoinvestitionen oder eines stagnierenden öffentlichen...

Recent studies have found that resource-rich low-income countries are better off investing their resource revenues domestically rather than saving them abroad in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This paper finds an optimal rule-based policy of accumulating public capital and its associated public...

Since the new German federal government has imposed tight fiscal policy restrictions on itself, a pragmatic approach is needed to finance the spending requirements of the transformation. The financing instruments mentioned in the coalition agreement appears to be suitable in principle for...

Der Koalitionsvertrag von Union und SPD enthält erste Schritte in Richtung einer Ausweitung der öffentlichen Investitionen in Bildung und Betreuung, Wohnungsbau und digitale Infrastruktur. Zusätzliche Investitionen in diesen drei Kernbereichen sind aus wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher...

Im Januarheft 2019 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Michael Grömling, Michael Hüther und Markos Jung dazu, wie der tatsächliche Umfang des öffentlichen Kapitalstocks gemessen werden sollte. Die Autoren vertreten dabei die Auffassung, dass der Fokus auf die Entwicklung...