TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
N1  - Revenue data available at the Global Price and Income History Group Website: http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/Evidence.htm.
TI  - Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650-1913
SP  - 48
A1  - Dincecco, Mark
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050709000345
Y1  - 2009/02/01/
VL  - 69
SN  - 0022-0507
ID  - eprints20
EP  - 103
N2  - Old Regime polities typically suffered from fiscal fragmentation and absolutist rule. By the start of World War I, however, many such countries had centralized institutions and limited government. This article uses a new panel data set to perform a statistical analysis of political regimes and public revenues in Europe from 1650 to 1913. Panel regressions indicate that centralized and limited regimes were associated with significantly higher revenues than fragmented and absolutist ones. Structural break tests also suggest close relationships between major turning points in revenue series and political transformations. 
JF  - Journal of Economic History
PB  - Cambridge University Press
IS  - 1
ER  -