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Does Size Matter? The Productivity of Government : Expenditures and the Size of States: Evidence from India

Haasnoot, Cornelis - 2016

Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian states, I test a model of the optimal size of the state. I find that size and preference...

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The Effect of the Expansion of the Voting Franchise on the Size of Government

Husted, Thomas A.; Kenny, Lawrence W. - 2008

This paper examines the claim that expansion of the voting franchise has been an important factor in the growth of government. State government spending and state and local spending are explained using a panel of 46 states for 1950-88. Elimination of poll taxes and literacy tests led to higher...

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Revisiting the Nexus between Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size - the Role of Ethnic Fragmentation

Choudhury, Atrayee; Sahu, Sohini - 2021

This study analyses a possible reason behind the ambiguous relationship between fiscal decentralization and government size by introducing the mediating factor of ethnic fragmentation. It is postulated that the heterogeneous needs and preferences of an ethnically fragmented region would lead to...

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Growth Effects of Public Expenditure on the State and Local Level : Evidence from a Sample of Rich Governments

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2005

There is a vast empirical literature investigating the relationship between government size and economic growth. But the empirical evidence of growth effects of public expenditure using cross-country regressions is still inconclusive. According to a number of authors this is not surprising since...

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Asymmetric Effects of Corruption on FDI: Evidence from Swedish Multinational Firms

Hakkala, Katariina; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Svaleryd, Helena - 2005

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

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State capacity and the quality of policies : revisiting the relationship between openness and the size of government

Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014

The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...

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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth

Goodman, Nathan - 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world adopted a variety of policies expanding the scope of their power. Some of these effects are immediate and observable. Others, however, are not readily observable and only appear over time. We explore these long-run consequences...

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan Wilhelm - 2012 - This version: 29 March 2012

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan - 2012

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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