This paper contradicts previous findings of a lack of relationship between government spending and long-run economic growth, arguing that government spending has several opposing effects on growth. The paper focuses on one of these, 'relative wage effects,' whereby government spending reduces...

This paper uses a large sample of survey data to investigate the empirical determinants of coupon usage. The broad set of control variables allows for comparisons of the relative importance of individual determinants and groups of determinants. We find that the set of variables measuring...