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Public expenditure and international specialisation

Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - 2001

It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...

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The effect of trade openness on optimal government size under endogenous firm entry

Hanslin, Sandra - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on government spending in a general equilibrium model with a continuum of industries supplying tradable and nontradable goods under monopolistic competition. Trade liberalization is modeled as the opening up of product markets between two...

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Trade openness, gains from variety and government spending

Hanslin, Sandra - 2010

This paper investigates empirically the effect of import diversity on government size and provides evidence for the love of variety effect on government spending described in Hanslin (2008). I argue that crowding out of firms is an important cost of public good provision. However, due to the...

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Demanda por gasto público no Brasil no período pós-redemocratização: Testes da lei de Wagner e da hipótese de mill de ilusão fiscal

da Silva, Alexandre Manoe Angelo; Siqueira, Rozane Bezerra - 2013

This paper examines whether fiscal illusion can help to explain the behavior of federal government expenditures in Brazil during period 1990-2011. The analyses is based on a median voter model that admits that the degree of tax visibility may affect the individual's perception of his tax burden...

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Reforming public expenditure in industrialised countries: are there trade-offs?

Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2005

In this paper, we show that, contrary to common beliefs, over the past two decades several countries were able to reduce public spending by remarkable amounts. These countries did not seem to have suffered from these large reductions either in a macroeconomic sense, or in terms of lower values...

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Expenditure reform in industrialised countries: a case study approach

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2006

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...

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Adolph Wagner und sein "Gesetz": einige späte Anmerkungen

Dluhosch, Barbara; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2008

Starting from the secular fact of an increasing government´s share, a retrospective on Adolph Wagner´s writings seems worthwhile. A leading German economist of the Bismarck era, he first formulated the famous 'law of increasing state activity' for industrializing nations. After analyzing his...

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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913

Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009

In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure programs. Starting from the economic...

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government

Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

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Fiscal policy in a growth framework

Gemmell, Norman - 2001

and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low … advances in endogenous growth theory have demonstrated that fiscal policy can have long-run effects on economic growth rates … unlikely to hold in low-income countries. Recent theory particularly stresses the importance for growth of the following. The …

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