Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality

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Autor(a) principal: Afonso, António
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Jalles, João Tovar
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25559
Resumo: This paper studies the empirical link between government size, institutions and economic activity using a panel of 140 countries over 40 years. Our results, robust under different econometric techniques, show mostly a negative effect of government size on output, while institutional quality has generally a positive impact. Moreover, the detrimental effect of government size on economic activity is stronger the lower institutional quality, and the positive effect of institutional quality on output increases with smaller government sizes
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spelling Economic performance, government size, and institutional qualityProduction FunctionInstitutionsGlobalizationGMMPooled Mean GroupCommon Correlated EffectsThis paper studies the empirical link between government size, institutions and economic activity using a panel of 140 countries over 40 years. Our results, robust under different econometric techniques, show mostly a negative effect of government size on output, while institutional quality has generally a positive impact. Moreover, the detrimental effect of government size on economic activity is stronger the lower institutional quality, and the positive effect of institutional quality on output increases with smaller government sizesSpringer ScienceRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAfonso, AntónioJalles, João Tovar2022-09-21T08:54:54Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25559engAfonso, António and João Tovar Jalles. (2016)."Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality" .Empirica, Vol. 43, No.1: pp. 83-109.10.1007/s10663-015-9294-2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:55:07Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/25559Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:09:24.080717Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
spellingShingle Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
Afonso, António
Production Function
Institutions
Globalization
GMM
Pooled Mean Group
Common Correlated Effects
title_short Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
title_full Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
title_fullStr Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
title_full_unstemmed Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
title_sort Economic performance, government size, and institutional quality
author Afonso, António
author_facet Afonso, António
Jalles, João Tovar
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author2 Jalles, João Tovar
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Afonso, António
Jalles, João Tovar
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Production Function
Institutions
Globalization
GMM
Pooled Mean Group
Common Correlated Effects
topic Production Function
Institutions
Globalization
GMM
Pooled Mean Group
Common Correlated Effects
description This paper studies the empirical link between government size, institutions and economic activity using a panel of 140 countries over 40 years. Our results, robust under different econometric techniques, show mostly a negative effect of government size on output, while institutional quality has generally a positive impact. Moreover, the detrimental effect of government size on economic activity is stronger the lower institutional quality, and the positive effect of institutional quality on output increases with smaller government sizes
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