AHRENS, JOACHIM; SCHWEICKERT, RAINER; ZENKER, JULIANE - In: Journal of Economic Development 40 (2015) 1, pp. 113-136
Empirical papers on the size of government suffer from neglecting preferences for government activity as discussed in the literature on varieties of capitalism. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries reveals a global divide. Among developing countries,...