Thrift culture and the size of government

Autor:	Fabrizio Carmignani, Parvinder Kler, Hien Thuc Pham
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Consumption (economics) Economics and Econometrics Government Public economics Applied economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Democracy Then test 0502 economics and business Institution Economics 050207 economics Proxy (statistics) 050205 econometrics media_common Panel data
Zdroj:	Economic Modelling. 70:571-578
ISSN:	0264-9993
DOI:	10.1016/j.econmod.2017.11.015
Popis:	We consider the role of culture in determining the size of government. To that purpose, we develop three theoretical hypotheses on the relationship between “thrift” (our proxy of culture) and government consumption. We then test these hypotheses using panel data for 62 countries. Our main finding is that government consumption is higher in thriftier countries. The positive effect of thrift on government consumption weakens in more corrupt or more democratic societies.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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