Zou Hengfu's 100+ papers
Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study* 1…, H
Zou - Journal of Urban economics, 1998 - Elsevier
We use a panel data set of 46 countries over the 1970–1989 period to
investigate the relationship
between fiscal decentralization and economic growth. We find a negative
relationship between
fiscal decentralization and growth in developing countries, but none in
developed ...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in the United States* 1…, H Zou
, H Davoodi - Journal of Urban Economics, 1999 - Elsevier
In a simple model of endogenous growth with spending by different levels of
government, we
demonstrate how fiscal decentralization affects the long-run growth rate of
the economy. Applying
the model to the US economy, we find that the existing spending shares for
state and ...
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Fiscal decentralization, public spending, and economic growth in China[PDF]
from nccu.edu.tw…, H Zou - Journal of Public Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
Many developing countries and transition economies have a mandate to
decentralize aspects
of their public finance. At the same time, many developed economies such as
the United
States, the United Kingdom, and Canada are reviving debates on devolution. .
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The composition of public expenditure and economic growth* 1[PDF] from
worldbank.org…, V Swaroop, H Zou - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1996 -
Elsevier
Noting that the literature has focused on the link between the level of
public expenditure and
growth, we derive conditions under which a change in the composition of
expenditure leads
to a higher steady-state growth rate of the economy. The conditions depend
not just on ...
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Income inequality is not harmful for growth: theory and evidence…, H Zou -
Review of Development Economics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reexamines the relationship between income distribution and
economic growth. We
consider a more general theoretical framework than Alesina and Rodrik (1994)
by dividing government
spending into production services and consumption ser- vices—the former
enter the ...
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Corruption, income distribution, and growth[PDF] from psu.edu…, LC Xu, H
Zou - Economics & Politics, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991,
1993) to study
corruption and how it affects income distribution and growth. We find that (
1) corruption affects
income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way, (2) corruption alone also
explains a ...
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Explaining international and intertemporal variations in income inequality[
PDF] from cenet.org.cn…, L Squire, H Zou - The Economic Journal, 1998 -
Wiley Online Library
... Hong yi Li, Lyn Squire and Heng-fu Zou This paper explores the
propositions that, income
inequality is relatively stable within countries; and that it varies signi&
AElig;cantly among countries.
A new and expanded data set provides broad support for both propositions. ..
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