Government size
Government size and trust
... of government size on ...sample. Government size is not thought to have the same effect on different types of ...from government size because the larger labor demanded by larger ...
28
Fiscal decentralization and government size across Europe
... country size and trade openness associated with the cultural and ethnic diversity (Alesina and Wacziarg, ...the government size through the effects of marginal costs for the supply of public ...and ...
29
A study on the relationship between corruption and government size: the role of democracy
... government size. While these two variables are important determinants of government size, as indicated by Persson and Tabellini (1999, 2003) and Shelton (2007), they may not have a direct ...
19
Government Size and Economic Growth: The Case of Liberia
... Adapting a two-sector production function framework, he showed that the appropriate variable for investigating the effects of government size on economic growth is the growth rate of gov[r] ...
11
Openness, Government Size and Economic Growth in Nigeria
... Table 1 present the descriptive statistics. From the result, it is observed that a higher level of consistency is displayed by the variables in that the median and mean values have val- ues that lie between the maximum ...
14
A panel study on the relationship between corruption and government size
... Corruption is a main factor that hinders economic growth, reduces government’s legitimacy, and affects political stability across time and countries (e.g., Mauro, 1995 and La Porta et al., 1999). For this reason, ...
10
Trade openness, capital openness and government size
... A natural question to ask is therefore whether capital openness may play an autonomous role in shaping government size and may affect the validity of the compensation hypothesis. By transposing Rodrik’s ...
28
Government Size Threshold and Economic Growth in Iran
... Following the non-linear theory of Armey (1995) and Vedder and Gallaway (1998), we have tested the presence of a non-linear Armey curve relationship between government size and economic growth in Iran. ...
14
Effects of groups and government size on information disclosure
... This paper used a IV-Tobit model to control for endogeneity bias. Instrumental variables should influence the endogenous variable, but should not be related to the error term. Aged people are generally retired and are ...
29
Rent seeking, Government Size and Economic Growth
... higher size of government is always growth depressing; we do not establish a monotone relationship between government size and ...large, government intervention is not growth ...
24
Determinants of government size: Evidence from China
... Scale effects. Scale effects (total population divided by the number of counties in a province) may apply to government expansion. Since large fixed costs are incurred in setting up an administrative system, a ...
27
Government size and economic growth in Greece: A smooth transition approach
... optimal size of government is ...the government spending and the economic ...the government spend- ing on capital formation has a signi…cant and positive e¤ect on the economic growth in these ...
24
Government Size and Economic Growth in Asia - Evidence from China and Japan
... and government spending on public goods, confirming the existence of BARS ...optimal government spending on public is ...of government size on economic ...of government size in ...
19
The Impact of Government Size on Output Volatility: Evidence from World Economies
... the government size has significantly negative impact for ...(as government general expenditure) will have a negative effect on the output volatility for these income ...larger government ...
16
Government Size, Institutions, and Export Performance among OECD Economies
... and government size, with mixed conclusions: Among others, Epifani and Gancia (2009) show that higher openness leads to bigger government, while Benarroch and Pandey (2008) reaches exactly the ...
31
Economic integration and government size: a review of the empirical literature
... the increase of government tax revenues between 1960 and 1975 in 18 OECD countries. But in Cameron (1978) almost all countries included in the analysis had capital controls in place, making it irrelevant to ...
58
Government Size, Political Institutions and Output Growth in Nigeria
... for government size over ...Total Government Expenditures to GDP (gov2), Recurrent Expenditures to GDP (gov3) and Total Public Debt to GDP (gov4) for the period 1960-2015 against ...that ...
13
Government size and trust
... Table 2 reports the results of the Ordered Probit estimations. As a baseline estimation, I conducted the estimation based on the sample using all observations; this is presented in column (1). After splitting the total ...
57
Decomposition of the effect of government size on growth
... that government size has a negative effect on growth mainly through hampering capital ...of government size on capital accumulation persists for non-OECD countries but not for OECD ...
13
INFLATION DYNAMICS AND GOVERNMENT SIZE IN NIGERIA
... if government size as decomposed by sector jointly and significantly cause consumer price index in the long ...from government size as decomposed by sector to consumer price index in ...
22