Economic Determinants of Government Subsidies /

The paper studies the economic determinants of government subsidies using panel data for 40 countries over 18 years (from 1975 to 1992) and finds that individual country-specific factors play a sizeable role in determining government subsidies. But it also suggests several characteristics-a small go...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clements, Benedict
Other Authors: Rodriguez, Hugo, Schwartz, Gerd
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/166
Online Access:Full text available on IMF