The rapid growth in public investment various sectors was assumed after decades of conflict and an unstable political situation. With the declaration Federal Republic, Nepal is going to embark on accelerated economic growth. This has somewhat caused concerns among policymakers its implication for And government transportation infrastructure one core strategies, called ‘infrastructure infrastruc...

This paper analyzes the consequences of parallel trade on health care systems in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. In particular, two cost-sharing systems — coinsurance and indemnity insurance — are compared with respect to changes in copayments and public health expenditure. Under both cost-sharing systems, parallel trade generates a price-decreasing competition eff...

In latest years there has been a growing interest on factors explaining health expenditure at a regional level. Indeed, in the case of Italy, even though the health care system was initially designed as a centralized one, the government has progressively undertaken a decentralization process up to the point of modifying the Constitution in order to appoint regions with exclusive health care res...

Current obesity prevention strategies recommend increasing daily physical activity, assuming that increased activity will lead to corresponding increases in total energy expenditure and prevent or reverse energy imbalance and weight gain [1-3]. Such Additive total energy expenditure models are supported by exercise intervention and accelerometry studies reporting positive correlations between p...

We examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the functional composition of public expenditures. Using a distance-sensitive representative agent model, we hypothesize that higher levels of fiscal decentralization induce agents to demand increased production of publicly provided private goods. We test this hypothesis using an unbalanced panel data set of 59 developed and develo...

Abstract—Arising problems of countries’ public finances, social and demographic changes motivate scientific and policy debates on public spending size, structure and efficiency in order to meet the changing needs of society and business. The concept of sustainable development poses new challenges for scientists and policy-makers in the field of public finance. This paper focuses on the investig...