This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic growth in OECD countries in 1960?2000. The underlying idea is that government expenditures on public goods basically have a positive effect on growth, but this growth effect tends to decline or even reverse when...

We discuss and provide an overview of the size and role of the government, notably in terms of what the government "should" do, how the government could spend and intervene in the economy, how much governments spend and what they spend their money on. This is done from a historical perspective...

In den betrachteten 21 OECD-Länder gibt es langfristige Trends der Entwicklung der öffentlichen Ausgaben als Anteil am BSP. Diese langfristigen Trends zeigen einen Umbruch von steigenden zu sinkenden Werten, der erfolgte in den meisten Ländern entweder in den frühen 1980er Jahren oder im...