This paper examines changes in the allocation of public funds between production related public goods (PRPGs) and labour augmenting public goods (LAPGs) once elected village leaders replaced an appointment system. We derive a two-period theoretical model in which the interest of appointed...

Este artículo lleva a cabo una revisión de la literatura académica que estudia los determinantes del tamaño del sector público. En primer lugar, se analizan los modelos clásicos basados en el teorema del votante mediano, en el que las decisiones públicas vienen determinadas por las...

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...