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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance … seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …
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We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …
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We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the …
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The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
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The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...
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Switzerland is often viewed as a federalist curiosity and a unique form of direct democracy. But this view does not provide a proper understanding of the country. A theory of Switzerland is necessary. A consideration of the initial, exogenous geographical situation of Swiss territory provides a...
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This paper investigates the long-run effects of public debt and inflation on economic growth. Our contribution is both … over the 1965-2010 period, we find significant negative long-run effects of public debt and inflation on growth. Our … negative effects on economic growth in the long run. But if the increase is temporary, then there are no long-run growth …
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analytic solutions for optimal policy. The variables in our reduced-form model – growth, unemployment, primary surplus – have a … rule demands an immediate and large policy response that is procyclical to growth shocks and countercyclical to … currently followed by policy makers responds procyclically to both growth and unemployment shocks, and does so much slower than …
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. The FPC has small resources and a broad remit including employment, growth, income distribution and monitoring of how well …
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