This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic growth in OECD countries in 1960 …?2000. The underlying idea is that government expenditures on public goods basically have a positive effect on growth, but this … growth effect tends to decline or even reverse when government is overdoing, e.g. by increasing expenditures in such a way …

The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak … government capabilities will tend to rely on spending expansions to deal with trade-induced volatility, countries with stronger …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

High levels of social trust has been linked to both public sector size and long term economic growth, thereby helping … examines if social trust as a background factor also insulates countries against negative effects of public sector size on … growth, as government size and growth are found to be negatively associated in several recent studies. We note that the …

negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance mechanism of government size. Theoretically, the net growth effect of … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries …