Arbeitspapier
The size of government
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. This is done from a historical perspective and also in a stylized way via assessing total expenditure, the composition of public expenditure for advanced, emerging and developing countries.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: EconPol Working Paper ; No. 46
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
Fiscal Policy
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
National Deficit; Surplus
- Subject
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public spending
size of government
expenditure composition
public sector efficiency
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Afonso, António
Schuknecht, Ludger
Tanzi, Vito
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Afonso, António
- Schuknecht, Ludger
- Tanzi, Vito
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Time of origin
- 2020
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