Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size … and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public …, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and …