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Government size, government debt and globalization
ABSTRACTThis article empirically investigates the effect of globalization on government size and debt. Using panel heterogeneous cointegration techniques to a panel of developing and developed countries, it finds that globalization reduces government size and debt. In terms of components of globalization, government size is found to increase with trade
Kim, D.H. +3 more
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Is there such a thing as an optimal government size? We investigate the so-called Armey curve, which claims an inverted U-shaped relationship between government size and economic performance, using non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The DEA scores are linked to control variables, such as initial per capita income, openness, population ...
de Witte, K., Moesen, W.
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We discuss and provide an overview of the size and role of the government, notably in terms of what the government “should” do, how the government could spend and intervene in the economy, how much governments spend and what they spend their money on. This is done from a historical perspective and also in a stylized way via assessing total expenditure,
António Afonso +2 more
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Population size and the size of government [PDF]
Abstract We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly specified and fail to consider the influence of cross-sectional dependence, non-stationarity and cointegration ...
Krieger, Tim, Meierrieks, Daniel
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Inflation and the Size of Government [PDF]
It is commonly supposed in public and academic discourse that inflation and big government are related. We show that economic theory delivers such a prediction only in special cases. As an empirical matter, inflation is significantly positively related to the size of government mainly when periods of war and peace are compared.
Song Han, Casey B. Mulligan
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On the Size and Growth of Government [PDF]
The size of the U.S. federal government, as well as state and local governments, increased dramatically during the 20th century. This paper reviews several theories of government size and growth that are dominant in the public choice and political science literature.
Thomas A. Garrett, Russell M. Rhine
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Necessary conditions for establishing an international financial center in Asia
Establishing an international financial center appears to be an important goal of many governments in emerging markets in Asia to support national economic growth.
Thang Cong Nguyen +2 more
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The Stabilizing Role of Government Size [PDF]
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Javier Andrés +2 more
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Political Polarization and the Size of Government [PDF]
In this article, we study the relationship between political polarization and public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of ...
Lindqvist, Erik, Östling, Robert
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The Relationship between the Government Size and Economic Growth in South Sumatra [PDF]
In general, many factors, including government spending, influence economic growth. In many theoretical and empirical studies, government spending is seen from the ratio between government spending and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or government size ...
Khairunisah Rahmatullah +2 more
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