Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample

Public Choice

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 245-278

  Angelopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Philippopoulos, Apostolis ^a,b,c   Tsionas, Efthymios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiscal policy; Government efficiency; Growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249169289     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9324-8     Document Type: Article

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