Consider the problem of a benevolent government that needs to finance the provision of a public good with distortionary taxes and cannot commit to policies beyond the current period. In such a case, public expenditure is inefficiently low. If the government further loses the ability to set tax rates before production in the period takes place, then it will not internalize how its policy choices...

OBJECTIVE Assessing how the Italian average food pattern would be affected in terms of consumption structure and expenditure by the adoption of nutritional prescriptions. DESIGN A linear programming model with nutritional and food habits constraints was employed to generate a pattern following recommended daily allowances (RDAs) and nutritional guidelines provided for the Italian population. ...

Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996 1999 Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona* A cornerstone of macroeconomic analysis since publication of Keynes’s General Theory in 1936 has been a strong belief in a stable aggregate consumption function. At a micro level, there has been an equally strong belief in invariant individual tastes and preferences. The usual approach in testi...

There are a number of barriers for the consumption of government expenditure data by citizens and computational systems. These include the lack of standardization in the structure of data in portals, as well as the significant complexity of the (highly technical and specialized) subject domain. In this paper we address these problems proposing a reference ontology for the Brazilian government b...

This study examined the fiscal decentralization-economic growth nexus in Nigeria, with objective of establishing causal relationship between measures decentralization and economic covering period 1981-2019. Employing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique econometrics, analyses revealed that variables employed vis-a-vis federal government, state government local expenditures have a pos...