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| Title: | | Kosten der Kleinheit und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz  |
| Authors: | | Kellermann, Kersten |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOFL Working Papers 3 |
| Abstract: | | This paper discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per-capita increases with the number of inhabitants of a canton. This holds for the aggregate expenditure level and for 6 expenditure categories of the Government Finance Statistics. The positive elasticity of per-capita expenditure with respect to population size can be understood as an indicator for increasing government failure in jurisdictions with bigger population size. |
| Subjects: | | Kosten der Kleinheit Skaleneffekte Dezentralität Einwohnerelastizität Öffentliche Ausgaben Föderalismus Leviathan-Hypothese |
| JEL: | | H40 H72 H77 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOFL Working Papers, Konjunkturforschungsstelle Liechtenstein
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