Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds and to estimate the response of labor supply to these publicly provided goods, and simulate the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers (MSCKT) for Brazil....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the size of government and public debt on real economic growth, for a panel of 175 countries around the world. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes the fixed-effects and random-effects techniques to estimate the...

Presents Lauchlin Currie's views on public spending as a means to recovery which originally appeared in a memorandum of April 6, 1936.

Examines Attilio da Empoli’s contributions in the field of public finance. This scholar was endowed with particular scientific qualities which allowed him to give original contributions to the theory of public finance, in particular in the field of oblique and backward tax shifting. The other...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the role of income-inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial interaction in the redistributive in-kind transfers from the local...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether the concept of the golden rule of capital accumulation is an applicable normative guidepost for a market economy even in the absence of the distortions usually associated with income and consumption taxes. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the role of income‐inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial interaction in the redistributive in‐kind transfers from the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether the concept of the golden rule of capital accumulation is an applicable normative guidepost for a market economy even in the absence of the distortions usually associated with income and consumption taxes. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds and to estimate the response of labor supply to these publicly provided goods, and simulate the marginal social cost of cash‐cum‐in‐kind transfers (MSCKT) for Brazil....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the size of government and public debt on real economic growth, for a panel of 175 countries around the world. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes the fixed‐effects and random‐effects techniques to estimate the...