A Noteon the Public Choice Approach to the Growth in Government Expenditure.
The paper applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries. It is discovered: (a) that deficit financing does appear to contribute to increased real government spending; (b) that the demand for government services as a whole does not appear t...
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| Materialtyp: | Tidskrift |
| Språk: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1988.
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| Serie: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1988/093 |
| Länkar: | Full text available on IMF |
| Sammanfattning: | The paper applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries. It is discovered: (a) that deficit financing does appear to contribute to increased real government spending; (b) that the demand for government services as a whole does not appear to be income elastic; (c) that there is some evidence of a productivity lag in the government sectors of Canada, Japan, and the United States, but not those of France, Italy, or the United Kingdom; and (d) that in most countries there is some evidence of economies of scale in the provision of government services. |
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| Fysisk beskrivning: | 1 online resource (25 pages) |
| Materialtyp: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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