Search Results - subject:"FISCAL CAPACITY"

What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona

Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; Nicoli, Francesco; de … - 2020

Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...

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Financial disincentives to formal employment and tax-benefit systems in Latin America

Deza Delgado, María Cecilia; Jara, H. Xavier; Oliva, … - 2020

Venezuela. Then, it analyzes the extent to which formalizing informal workers would contribute to increase fiscal capacity. Our …

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Is there a fiscal resource curse? Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies

Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or … natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in fiscal capacity. However, political institutions that limit rulers … negatively associated with fiscal capacity, while diffuse resources are not; (2) developing economies with institutionalized …

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A fiscal capacity for the euro area: Lessons from existing fiscal-federal systems

Burriel, Pablo; Chronis, Panagiotis; Freier, Maximilian; … - 2020

After the financial and economic crisis in Europe, a broad consensus has emerged that a stronger fiscal dimension may be needed to complete the architecture of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This paper analyses the performance of interregional transfers in existing fiscal-federal systems,...

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Reflections on fiscal coordination and integration in Europe

Cheng, Gong; Korhonen, Kari - 2020

This paper provides an overview of the key steps that were made in the European Union toward enhancing fiscal policy coordination and integration prior to the Covid-19 crisis. It especially highlights the key challenges and strategies that should be considered when thinking of further fiscal...

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Fiscal sustainability, equity, and allocative efficiency in the light of the 2019 supreme court ruling on the LGUs' share in national taxes

Manasan, Rosario G. - 2020

The Supreme Court (SC) ruled with finality in April 10, 2019 on the motions for reconsideration of its initial decision promulgated in July 3, 2018 on the petitions filed by separately by Mandanas et al. and Garcia regarding what petitioners perceived to be errors in the computation of the...

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The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth

Albers, Thilo N.; Jerven, Morten; Suesse, Marvin - 2020

Why do large differences in fiscal capacity exist between states in the Global South? We construct a comprehensive new … theories of fiscal capacity in a long-run panel setting, using fixed-effects and causal estimation techniques. The results show … democratic institutions and interstate warfare can increase fiscal capacity, while government turnover reduces it. However, these …

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A fiscal capacity for the euro area: lessons from existing fiscal-federal systems

Burriel Llombart, Pablo; Chronis, Panagiotis; Freier, … - 2020

Tras la crisis económica y financiera, ha emergido en Europa un amplio consenso sobre la necesidad de reforzar la dimensión fiscal para completar la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM). Este documento analiza el papel de las transferencias interregionales en algunas de las principales...

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A new measure of foreign rule based on genetic distance

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2020 - Revised version: March 2020, first version: January 2015

EPGD_1900 and current fiscal capacity (controlling for various relevant country characteristics, existing measures of …

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A fiscal capacity for the euro area : lessons from existing fiscal-federal systems

Burriel, Pablo; Chronis, Panagiotis; Freier, Maximilian; … - 2020

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