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Finanzpolitik und Produktionspotential in Deutschland: 1991 - 2008

Boss, Alfred (contributor) - 2009

In recent years, a lot of rules concerning government expenditures as well as tax revenues were changed in Germany. Government expenditures in relation to GDP were reduced, income tax rates were lowered and the budget deficit declined. The structure of government expenditures changed in favor of...

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Varieties of capitalism, governance and government spending : a cross-section analysis

Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - 2011

We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries averaging data for the period 2003-07 reveals that better...

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Government activity and economic growth : one size fits all?

Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - 2014

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...

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Large-scale transition of economic systems : do CEECs converge towards Western prototypes?

Ahlborn, Markus; Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer - 2014

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...

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Institutional design and spatial (in)equality : the Janus face of economic integration

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - 2020

This paper analyzes within a spatial endogenous growth setting the impact of public policy coordination on agglomeration. Governments in each of the two symmetric regions provide a local public input that becomes globally effective due to integration. Micro-foundation of governmental behavior is...

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Economic systems in developing countries : a macro cluster approach

Ahlborn, Markus; Schweickert, Rainer - 2017

The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed countries, while other world regions have only partly been included and/or not compared to established OECD prototypes on an income-adjusted basis. In our macro...

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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation : evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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Verkehrsspezifische Ausgaben und Einnahmen der Gebietskörperschaften in Deutschland : eine empirische Analyse

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Rosenschon, Astrid - 2001

Die Gebietskörperschaften in Deutschland sind zunehmend bestrebt, private Finanzierungsmodelle für den Bau und den Betrieb von Einrichtungen der Verkehrsinfrastruktur zu realisieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird versucht, mittels einer detaillierten Auswertung der Haushaltspläne des Bundes und...

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Towards a European constitution : fiscal federalism and the allocation of economic competences

Stehn, Jürgen - 2002

The paper analyzes one important aspect of the constitutional debate: the allocation of econornie competences between the EU and the mernber states. It takes the theory of fiscal federalism as a starting point for an optimal allocation of economic competences. The main message of the theory is...

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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism

Bickenbach, Frank - 2000

The paper starts with a description of major reforms of EU policy in the network industries. Based on the normative economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An appropriate allocation of regulatory competencies may...

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