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Public expenditure and international specialisation [PDF]
, 2000 It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector for which it has relatively large home-biased procurement
Brülhart, Marius, Trionfetti, Federico
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Taxation, Public Expenditures and Agglomeration
Economia politica, 2013Recently, issues of international taxation have also been analysed from a New Economic Geographyperspective. These discussions show that adding agglomerative forces can change the results considerably.In our paper, we introduce a public sector into a Footloose Capital model: Capital income is taxed accordingto the residence principle and any tax ...
COMMENDATORE, PASQUALE, I. Kubin
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Decentralization and the Composition of Public Expenditures
2012Abstract : We examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the functional composition of public expenditures. Using a distance-sensitive representative agent model, we hypothesize that higher levels of fiscal decentralization induce agents to demand increased production of publicly provided private goods.
Arze del Granado, F. Javier +2 more
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Tax Expenditure and Public Expenditure in the UK
Journal of Social Policy, 1986ABSTRACT‘Tax expenditures’ are public revenue losses which result from special allowances and reliefs given to various categories of taxpayer for reasons of economic and social policy. In 1983/4 tax expenditures in the personal income tax system cost nearly £11 billion which was equal to 35 per cent of revenue from personal income tax or 9 per cent of ...
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Public expenditure and public accountability
Omega, 1979Abstract Within a parliamentary democracy, both the Executive and Legislature have key roles in ensuring public accountability for budgetary decisions. The internal budgetary processes of the United Kingdom Government have developed the PESC system of planning public expenditure over a rolling five year period at constant prices.
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Health and the allocation of public expenditures
Health Policy, 1990In a cross-country study we use a multiple regression in order to estimate the contribution of several factors to life expectancy. We find schooling as the main variable. Medicine also has a significant contribution. Calorie supply has a positive contribution only in the less developed countries.
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Restraining Public Health Expenditure
1997Health expenditure is undoubtedly one of the main components of public expenditure in Italy. Therefore Italian Government, forced by his huge deficit, is trying to restrain it in different ways. Firstly by seeking to improve its efficiency by making uniform the treatments of similar cases, secondly by introducing a compulsory costs sharing (“tickets ...
G. Goisis, P. Parravicini
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Voting the Public Expenditure: an Experiment [PDF]
, 2007 This paper considers the problem of voting about the quantity of a public good. An experiment has been run in order to test the extent of the strategic bias that arises in the individual vote when the social choice rule is to select the mean of the quantities voted for; conflicting theoretical predictions are available in the literature on this purpose.
MARCHESE C, MONTEFIORI, MARCELLO
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