Tax expenditures versus direct government spending: A comparative efficiency analysis

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Until recently the concept of tax expenditures has been exclusively analyzed along traditional Pigouvian lines. Broadly speaking, the introduction of tax/subsidy-schemes was considered to be justified whenever large number externalities prevent the market from working efficiently. This approach - while fruitful and important in its own right - neglects a fundamental policy problem, namely the public choice option between tax expenditures and direct government spending: independent of any welfare theoretic rationale for public intervention, there remains the question which kind of intervention - tax expenditure (implicit subsidization) or direct expenditure - is the most efficient solution.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Year: 1984 ; Kiel: Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Paqué, Karl-Heinz
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW) ; ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 1984

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/47178
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