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Zur Anatomie der Staatsquote

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  • Dluhosch, Barbara

    (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

  • Zimmermann, Klaus W.

    (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

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Previous studies were plagued with considerable problems when interpreting and empirically analysing Wagner's Law. Therefore, we initially present some kind of "pure theory of government's share" for a two-person society based on the pure theory of public and private goods as originally developed by Samuelson. We show that Wagner's regime of a representative and authoritative individual and collective decision making a la Samuelson imply different government shares in GNP, though, in principle, Wagner's outcome can be generated even in a Samuelsonian context. Generalizing our results to an n-person society, we derive "optimal" government shares by use of various variants of the model, however, with very different distributional consequences.

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  • Dluhosch, Barbara & Zimmermann, Klaus W., 2007. "Zur Anatomie der Staatsquote," Working Paper 58/2007, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:vhsuwp:2007_058
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    Keywords

    Wagner's Law; public goods; budget-to GNP-ratio;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General

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