@techreport{Zimmermann2007Anatomie,
abstract = {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 \textendash{} 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.},
author = {Klaus W. Zimmermann and Barbara Dluhosch},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H50; H11; H41; D11; 330; Wagner\textasciiacute{} s Law; public goods; budget-to GNP-ratio},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-17134},
number = {58},
title = {Zur Anatomie der Staatsquote},
type = {Diskussionspapier / Helmut-Schmidt-Universit\"{a}t Hamburg, F\"{a}chergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23707},
year = {2007}
}
