Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2006
According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization (“compensation hypothesis”). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze … whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we …