Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 124,933
Cover Image
Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?
Grob, Ueli (contributor); Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor) - 2005
Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201836
Cover Image
Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779062
Cover Image
Do Institutions of Direct Democracy Tame the Leviathan? Swiss Evidence on the Structure of Expenditure for Public Education
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2021
the U.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of the exact transmission channels for this impact. Studies for the U … hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school administration. However, research for Switzerland using a time-series panel of sub … efficiency gains in the provision of public goods for Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318116
Cover Image
Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
Cover Image
Protestantism and government spendig : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss Cantons
Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor);  … - 2007
Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604466
Cover Image
Protestantism and Government Spending : A Negative Relationship? An Empirical Application to Swiss Cantons
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725749
Cover Image
How does depreciations management affect subsequent fiscal performance? : the case of the Swiss cantons
Clémenceau, Maxime; Soguel, Nils - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 154 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
Creative accounting allows governments and, more particularly, finance ministers to somehow manage financial reports to achieve specific and possibly self-interested goals. It is usually used to hide deficits. It sometimes also helps to present financial performance as being more worrisome than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963006
Cover Image
The Impact of Within-Party and Between-Party Ideological Dispersion on Fiscal Outcomes : Evidence from Swiss Cantonal Parliaments
Bjedov, Tjasa; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry - 2018
party members that were candidates to federal elections in Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138768
Cover Image
On the fiscal sustainability of Swiss Cantons since 1905
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023 - This version: 4th November 2023
With an outstandingly long data set of Swiss cantonal public finances we study whether the Swiss subnational level runs sustainable fiscal policies. Going back to the year 1905, we test for stationarity of cantonal public debt, revenue and spending and for cointegration between cantonal revenues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416154
Cover Image
The heterogeneous impacts of business cycles on educational attainment
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational attainment is countercyclical, as found in other studies, but also find that the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528135