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Government size, government debt and globalization

Applied Economics, 2017
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., Suen, Y. B., Lin, S.C., Hsieh, J.   +3 more
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A Rational Theory of the Size of Government

Journal of Political Economy, 1981
In a general equilibrium model of a labor economy, the size of government, measured by the share of income redistributed, is determined by majority rule. Voters rationally anticipate the disincentive effects of taxation on the labor-leisure choices of their fellow citizens and take the effect into account when voting.
Meltzer, Allan H, Richard, Scott F
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Asymmetric determinants of CO2 emissions in China: do government size and economic size matter?

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022
Muhammad Tayyab Sohail
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Fiscal decentralization, democracy and government size: Disentangling the complexities

Journal of International Development, 2021
This paper examines the mediating effect of democracy in explaining the relationship between decentralization and government size for the period 1970 – 2013.
Samuel Kwabena Obeng
exaly   +2 more sources

Government Size and Economic Growth: A Review of International Literature

SAGE Open, 2019
In this article, we survey the existing literature on the causal relationship between government size and economic growth, highlighting the theoretical and empirical evidence from topical work.
Sheilla Nyasha, Nicholas M Odhiambo
exaly   +2 more sources

Fiscal decentralization and government size: The role of democracy

European Journal of Political Economy, 2019
This paper examines how the level of democracy in a country affects the relationship between fiscal decentralization and government size. We argue that political regimes, proxied by their democracy levels, are important for different decentralization ...
Yongzheng Liu
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Government Size and Press Freedom on Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Method of Moment Quantile Regression Approach

The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2021
Although an active body of literature exists on the relationship between government size and corruption, different findings proliferate the literature due to the nuances of geographical context, methods, and variables employed.
G. B. Amegavi
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Government Size and Economic Growth: An Empirical Examination of Selected Emerging Economies

South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, 2021
The current study attempts to examine the linkage between government (public) spending and economic growth in the broader framework of selected South Asian Nations (SANs), BRICS and other emerging nations by using two sets of empirical modelling over the
Megha Jain, Aishwarya Nagpal, Abhay Jain
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Optimum government size and economic growth in case of Indian states: Evidence from panel threshold model

Economic Modelling, 2020
This paper investigates the relationship between optimum government size and economic growth using data of Indian states during 1990-91 to 2017–18.
Vaseem Akram, Badri Narayan Rath
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Government size, composition of public spending and economic growth in Brazil

, 2020
The performance of the fiscal policy is largely affected by the relationship between government size, composition of public spending and economic growth.
J. A. Divino, Daniel T. G. N. Maciel, W. Sosa   +2 more
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