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Public Spending, Public Deficits and Government Coalitions

This study examines the relationship between types of government and level of public spending. There are two competing perspectives about the consequences of coalition governments for the size of public expenditures. The most common argument is that government spending increases under coalition governments, compared with one-party governments. Another line of thought contends that coalition gov...

Local Government Capability and Public Spending Efficacy: Evidence from a Decentralized Government Transfer Program in Indonesia

This paper investigates the association between pre-existing local government capability and the size of grants from the central government that is actually delivered to intended beneficiaries by the local government. Combining administrative data and household survey datasets, we show that only 78 percent of the grants under the Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT)–Indonesia’s poverty alleviation prog...

Public-Private Partnerships and Government Spending Limits

We consider public-private partnerships, in which a public official selects a project that is then developed and operated by a private contractor. We derive optimal public accounting rules when the official's choice among projects is biased by ideology or social ties or because of pandering to special interests. We give particular emphasis to how the rules should constrain the official’s incent...

Public preferences for government spending in Canada

This study considers three questions: 1. What are the Canadian public's prioritization preferences for new government spending on a range of public health-related goods outside the scope of the country's national system of health insurance? 2. How homogenous or heterogeneous is the Canadian public in terms of these preferences? 3. What factors are predictive of the Canadian public's preferences...