Etnik Farklılık ve Kamu Borcu Üzerine Etkileri: Analitik Bir Bakış Açısı

Aylin Konu and Ahmet Yılmaz Ata

Sosyoekonomi Journal, 2016, issue 24(28)

Abstract: Nowadays, public debt is one of the most important macroeconomic problems encounted in developed or developing countries. In addition to the economic factors, social and institutional factors may also affect public debt. It is expressed that the ethnic diversity is one of the social factors that influence the public debt by increasing public spending. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test to the impact of ethnic diversity on public debt for the 28 EU countries and Turkey by using 2014 data and cross-section analysis method. According to the empirical results of the study, it was found that ethnic diversity had statistically significant and positive impact on public debt.

Keywords: Diversity; Public Debt; Rent-Seeking. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D02 D73 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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