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Public spending Law “Self-reinforcing” process Dépenses publiques Histoire économique -- France Inflation législative H - Public Economics/H.H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt/H.H6.H61 - Budget • Budget Systems K - Law and Economics/K.K2 - Regulation and Business Law/K.K2.K20 - General N - Economic History/N.N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation/N.N4.N44 - Europe: 1913–Sujets proches
Legislative acts Legislative enactments Acts, Legislative Enactments, Legislative Laws (Statutes) Government spending Spending, Government Government expenditures Government appropriations Public spending Public expenditures Appropriations and expenditures BudgetingCiter ce document
François Facchini et al., « Legislative production and public spending in France », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1007/s11127-020-00858-7
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The aim of this article is to help explain the history of the public spending-to-GDP ratio in France by examining the production of laws and regulations. It empirically finds a positive and significant relationship between the number of pages in the Official Gazette of the French Republic and the development of the public expenditure-to-GDP ratio. We rely on the number of pages in the Official Gazette as a proxy for the cost of implementing laws and regulations. If unchecked, a proliferation of laws and regulations expands public spending. Over the period 1905–2015, a 10% increase in pages caused a 1.14% increase in the public expenditure-to-GDP ratio.