caa a22 4500 475841042 CHVBK 20180406123901.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005032817804 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005032817804 The Curious Attraction of Wagner's Law [Elektronische Daten] [Alan Peacock, Alex Scott] Wagner's ‘law of increasing state activity' has recently been subjected to intensive use of recondite econometric testing procedures. An examination of the relevant articles reveals ignorance both of Wagner's definition of ‘state activity' and of his insistence that he was not engaged in prediction. Consequently, the omission of public enterprises contained in Wagner's definition leads to a model misspecification and the object of testing his hypothesiss remains obscure. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Peacock Alan David Hume Institute, EH8 9LD, Edinburgh, U.K. aut Scott Alex Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, U.K aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/1-2(2000-01-01), 1-17 0048-5829 102:1-2<1 2000 102 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005032817804 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005032817804 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peacock Alan David Hume Institute, EH8 9LD, Edinburgh, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scott Alex Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/1-2(2000-01-01), 1-17 0048-5829 102:1-2<1 2000 102 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer