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The Relationship between Government Size and Happiness [PDF]
Introduction: Although the use of the happiness economy approach does not have much history, since policy makers generally make decisions in the direction of increasing well-being and public satisfaction, it becomes important to quantify the concept of ...
Fateme Momeni Mahmouei +1 more
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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 ...
Afonso, António +2 more
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Give and Take: Political Competition, Participation and Public Finance in 20th Century Latin America [PDF]
Rational choice models predict that political competition and political participation have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate these theories using data from a panel of 18 Latin American countries during the 20th century.
Aidt, Toke S., Eterovic, Dalibor
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This study aims to examine the asymmetric effects of fiscal decentralisation and institutional quality on government size for selected Asian economies.
Sidra Sohail +3 more
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The Government Size and Economic Growth in Iran: Markov-Switching Granger Causality Approach [PDF]
For more than a century, the causal relationship between government size and economic growth has been a challenging issue in the public sector economics. However, there is no theoretical or empirical consensus among economists on this issue. Accordingly,
jalal montazeri shoorekchali +1 more
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Government Size and Quality of Governance: Does State Size Matter?
Purpose: Small state studies has emerged as a discipline, and this discipline has been initially dominated mainly by the issues of vulnerability and a lack of capacities of small states, although these issues have been gradually replaced by the discussions on the potential opportunities of small states, not just their challenges. Within this framework,
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Roots of Administrative Corruption in Public Sector of Developing Countries [PDF]
What lessons does prior research on causes of corruption offer public administrators operating in, and researchers studying the dynamics of, public sectors of most governments developing societies?
Mina Alavi, Seyedeh Laya Mortazavi
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The impact of shadow banking on government size in selected countris [PDF]
Shadow banking comprises a set of non-bank financial intermediaries such as pension funds, investment funds, insurance companies, and other non-bank financial intermediaries that function similarly to traditional banks in terms of performance but are not
Mohammad Ibrahim Akbary +3 more
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The Size and Structure of Government [PDF]
Does government size and structure adapt to changes in government’s organisational environment (particularly to uncertainty and complexity) as predicted by organisational theory? We find – using a range of statistical analyses – support for each of the major theories of organisation adaptation (the contingency-based view, resource-based view, and ...
Michael, Bryane, Popov, Maja
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Fiscal policy, government size and EMU business cycle synchronization
We provide new evidence on the effects of fiscal policy and government size on pairwise business cycle synchronisation in EMU. A novel time-varying framework is employed to estimate business cycle synchronisation and subsequently a panel approach is ...
S. Bunyan +3 more
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