Purpose - This paper seeks to investigate the role of income-inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach - First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial ...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of taxation (direct and indirect) and social spending (cash transfers and public spending on health and education) on social inequalities in Brazil. Therefore, ...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which public spending is affected by remittances in Mexico. This research attempts to empirically test the hypothesis that government’s exploits remittances revenues in ...

We use a new narrative measure of fiscal shocks to study how private consumption reacts to government spending increases. Our fiscal shocks arise from three announcements of expansionary fiscal rule deviations in a small ...

The present study primarily aims at identifying budget (in) dependence concerning inter- governmental transfers and their effect on the economic growth of municipalities having up to 10,000 inhabitants in the State of Santa ...

The objective of this study is to examine the evolution and characteristics of the financing for the nvironment in Brazil, in order to identify the advances and retreats after the Rio 92 Conference. ...