Abstract Governments are expected to tackle externalities such as pollution, epidemics and environmental catastrophes, but whether how governments themselves generate is a question equally important for exploring socially beneficial policies institutional reforms. The problem with defining government that governments, through regulation distribution, inevitably allocate costs benefits asymmetri...

This paper aims to investigate the effect of budget deficit shock on government spending in Indonesia. For this propose, this reasearch uses an alternative error correction model based on loss function of government spending. The model assumes the short run disequilibrium, in which shock variables may play an important role. A spesific loss function model is applied to develop the long run gove...

The Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) has implemented many statewide e-Government applications since the year 2000, when the Central Government of India enacted the IT Act of 2000 to provide legal recognition to electronic transactions. As a part of these initiatives, GoAP has set up an EProcurement Marketplace, linking government departments, agencies and local bodies with their vendors. The...

This article asks how Internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government, and citizen trust in government are interrelated. We first review the literature on trust and explore how radical information technologies may work to alter the production or maintenance of trust. We then develop hypotheses about how citizens’ experience with e-government, satisfaction with e-government and government W...