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Country size and publicly provided goods

Staal, Klaas - 2006

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in small countries have greater influence over the nature of political decision making while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more public goods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...

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Country size and public good provision

Staal, Klaas - 2004

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in smallcountries have greater influence over the nature of political decision mak-ing while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more publicgoods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334838

The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

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Warming Up to Water Markets

Adler, Jonathan H. - 2014

Water policy experts contend that the United States is heading toward a water scarcity crisis in the coming years. Global climate change is likely to make water scarcity much worse in the long run. This article argues that demands of current and projected water management challenges can best be...

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Zur Anatomie der Staatsquote

Zimmermann, Klaus W.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2007

Previous studies were plagued with considerable problems when interpreting and empirically analysing Wagner's Law. Therefore, we initially present some kind of "pure theory of government's share" for a two-person society based on the pure theory of public and private goods as originally...

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Some Second Thoughts on Wagner's Law

Dluhosch, Barbara; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2006

We examine whether the Samuelsonian definition of public goods can be reconciled with "Wagner's Law", that is, public expenditures outpacing economic growth. While both predominantly focus on the demand-side, they differ with respect to their socio-political foundations. Taking the latter into...

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Is the Value of Environmental Goods Sensitive to the Source of Public Funding? Evidence from a Marine Restoration Programme in the Black Sea

Remoundou, Kyriaki; Adaman, Fikret; Koundouri, Phoebe; … - Department of International and European Economic …

In this paper we employ a choice experiment (conducted in Ukraine and Turkey) on the valuation of a marine restoration programme in the Black Sea, to examine whether the value of environmental goods is sensitive to the source of public financing. We contribute to the debate on the optimal...

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An Olympic Level Playing Field? The Contest for Olympic Success as a Public Good

Groot, Loek - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 55 (2012) 2, pp. 25-50

This article considers the performance of countries at the Olympic Games as a public good. Firstly, it is argued that, at the national level, Olympic success meets the two key conditions of a public good: non-rivalry and non-excludability. Secondly, it is demonstrated that standard income...

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Человеческий капитал и реформы нового времени

Rubinstein, Alexander Yakovlevich - Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Настоящий научный доклад посвящен анализу экономических реформ, осуществляемых в России после 2000 г. и оказывающих непосредственное влияние на человеческий...

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Основания смешанной экономики. Экономическая социодинамика

Rubinstein, Alexander Yakovlevich; Grinberg, Ruslan … - Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Настоящая книга представляет собой третье (исправленное и дополненное) издание монографии «Экономическая социодинамика». Ее первое издание вышло в свет в 2000 г....

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