scholarly journals Austrian Government Expenditures: Wagners Law Or Baumols Disease?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Neck ◽  
Michael Getzner
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
Government Expenditures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
Cost Disease ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Income Elasticity Of Demand

Government expenditures have grown in Austria during most of the 20th century. In this paper, we present empirical evidence for this growth process and analyze some of its possible reasons. In particular, two prominent theoretical explanations for public sector growth are tested for Austria: first, Wagners Law hypothesizing a positive income elasticity of demand for public goods, and second, Baumols Cost Disease, relating public sector growth to above-average cost increases in the public sector as compared to the private sector. The empirical evidence confirms the importance of the Cost Disease for Austria but cannot confirm the validity of Wagners Law. Business cycles influence government expenditures in the short run, while a number of variables suggested by public choice theories except for fiscal illusion do not significantly influence the growth of the public sector in Austria.

Charitable Giving as a Mixed Public/Private Good: Implications for Tax Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Tax Changes ◽  
Income Elasticity Of Demand

This is an analysis of the effect of tax changes on charitable giving in a model in which donors possess both private and public good motivations. In Nash equilibrium, donors respond both to changes in taxes and to induced responses by other donors. The aggregate change in donations is smaller than it would be in the pure private model by a factor involving the extent of crowdout of one's own donations by others’ giving. The direction and magnitude of crowdout depends on the relative importance of the public and private motivations, the Hicksian relation between the two (substitutes or complements), the extent of over- or undersupply of the public good, and the income elasticity of demand for the public good.

Council House Sales and Residualization

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J. Williams ◽  
J. Sewel ◽  
F. Twine
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
General Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Right To Buy ◽  
Council House

ABSTRACTIt has been argued that council house sales will contribute towards a more general process of residualization of public sector housing. Empirical evidence is presented in this context derived from surveys of purchasers and non-purchasers of council dwellings in the city of Aberdeen. This evidence confirms that purchasers and non-purchasers exhibit different socio-economic characteristics and after only four years of the Right to Buy legislation significant numbers of households in social classes I, II and III have left the public sector via the mechanism of sales. The small number of sales relative to the stock as a whole, however, has meant that the overall contribution of sales towards residualization has been small. This evidence from Aberdeen is compared to evidence from elsewhere and related to the varying pattern of sales across the country as a whole.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERMINTAAN KEDELAI DI INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Septi Rostika Anjani ◽  
Dwidjono Hadi Darwanto ◽  
Jangkung Handoyo Mulyo
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Per Capita Income ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Income Elasticity Of Demand

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the demand of soybean in Indonesia. The research method uses descriptive analysis of secondary data which includes the price of imported soybeans, the price of chicken, per capita  income,  the rate of inflation and import tariff policy  year period 1980-2013 which sourced from FAO  and  other  sources.  Estimation  of  demand  function  using  multiple  linear regression  analysis  were  transformed  in  the  form  of  natural  logarithm.  Regression analysis showed that soybean demand in Indonesia was influenced partially by prices of chicken, per capita income, and the rate of inflation. The price elasticity of demand of soybean in Indonesia is inelastic, that is equal 0,22. While the income elasticity of demand  for  soybeans  is  positive  which  means  that  soy  is  a  staple  item  for  the Indonesian people.

scholarly journals Whistleblowing: Impediments to effective implementation within the South African public sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmala Dorasamy ◽  
Soma Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The South ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Cost

This purpose of this article is to explore impediments to effective whistleblowing as a strategy for promoting anti-corruption practices within the South African public sector. Corruption, which violates the public service code of conduct; deters foreign investment, increases the cost of public service delivery, undermines the fight against poverty and unnecessarily burdens the criminal justice system. The article addresses the question on whether legislation on whistleblowing is adequate to encourage whistleblowing in the public sector. A review of literature determines that the effective implementation of whistleblowing legislation is largely dependent on addressing the challenges identified in the article. The quantitative research method was employed in the study to ascertain the views of employees in the public sector on whistleblowing. Empirical findings confirm the hypothesis that the protection of whistleblowers through legislation is inadequate to encourage whistleblowing. The article provides a conceptual framework for the effective achievement of the intended outcomes of whistleblowing in the public sector.

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