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Public preferences for government spending priorities : survey evidence from Germany
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - This version: 4 November 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434575
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Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities : Survey Evidence from Germany
Hayo, Bernd - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040404
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Government and growth
Zarin-Nejadan, Milad - 2011
public expenditures especially those responding to market failures tend to be favorable to growth, most taxes are growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307545
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Ensuring debt sustainability amid strong economic uncertainty in Hungary
Beynet, Pierre; Kierzenkowski, Rafał - 2012
side and avoid raising distortive taxes. Third, the fiscal framework should be improved by making fiscal rules less pro … enlarged mandate, while removing its power to veto the budget. This Working Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690137
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The size of government
Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2020
We discuss and provide an overview of the size and role of the government, notably in terms of what the government "should" do, how the government could spend and intervene in the economy, how much governments spend and what they spend their money on. This is done from a historical perspective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233031
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The Impact of r-g on the Euro-Area Government Spending Multiplier
di Serio, Mario; Fragetta, Matteo; Melina, Giovanni - 2021
We compute government spending multipliers for the Euro Area (EA) contingent on the interestgrowthdifferential, the so-called r-g. Whether the fiscal shock occurs when r-g is positive or negativematters for the size of the multiplier. Median estimates vary conditional on the specification, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243042
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British Influence on Commonwealth Budget Systems : The Case of the United Republic of Tanzania
Lienert, Ian - 2007
Several features of Tanzania's budget system find their roots in the arrangements inherited from the United Kingdom. These include a legal framework that emphasizes accountability' a cabinet of ministers with strong budget decision-making powers' a parliament with very limited budget powers' and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777193
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A Comparison between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa
Lienert, Ian - 2006
This paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the French and British public expenditure management systems as used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone Africa, there are common weaknesses in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783023
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The quality of public finances
Thöne, Michael - 2022
The concept of the "quality of public finances" (QPF) covers many qualitative and structural issues of fiscal policy. This chapter traces the origins of the concept of QPF to the Lisbon Strategy and the subsequent EPC Working Group on "Quality of Public Finances" (2004‐2007). At its core, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013188102
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Enhancing Expenditure Control with a Decentralised Public Sector in Denmark
Daugaard, Steen - 2002
This paper analyses of some the key aspects of public expenditure policy in Denmark. The public expenditure to GDP ratio has abated markedly since the mid-1990s, reflecting both cyclical gains and the return on structural reforms. Nevertheless, the underlying upward pressure on government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443874