Public Sector Size and Peripherality
| Autor: | Dennis Thomas, Peter Midmore, Rhydian Fon James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Returns to scale business.industry Geography Planning and Development Public sector Population Economy Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Economics Economic geography Statistics Probability and Uncertainty business education General Economics Econometrics and Finance |
| Zdroj: | Spatial Economic Analysis. 7:447-460 |
| ISSN: | 1742-1780 1742-1772 |
| Popis: | This paper develops a model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into a private-sector dominated ‘core’ region and a public-sector dominated ‘periphery’. A large public sector is closely associated with peripheral economies, although it is unclear to what extent it is a cause of peripherality rather than a symptom. The paper takes a minimum public sector size, dependent on each region's population, to present a public sector increasing in volume relative to falling population. This modelling activity is an attempt to quantify empirical and quantitative observations on the size of regional public sectors in terms of the new economic geography, and demonstrates that under various conditions a relatively large public sector can be beneficial for a peripheral region. RESUME La presente communication developpe un modele montrant la facon dont un pays peut devenir, de facon endogene, differencie dans une region essentielle dominee par le secteur prive, et une « peripherie » d... |
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