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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … medium enterprises, possibly, because in large firms borrowing is a less essential source of finance. An important policy …

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Sources of finance and growth

Marjit, Sugata; Pranab Kumar Das - 2024

The paper provides an analysis of the simultaneous existence of the formal and the informal sources of finance and …, viz. formal banking sector with lower interest rate with finance constraint and an informal credit market with a higher … the informal source of finance easily the growth rate could have been lower. The premium associated with the differential …

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Curriculum and ideology

Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - 2014

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey...

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Drivers of fiscal sustainability : a time-varying analysis for Portugal

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2023

We assess the drivers of fiscal sustainability in Portugal during the period 1999Q4-2021Q4. We resort to expanding window and Schlicht (2003, 2021)'s time-varying approaches to construct the responses of government revenues to government expenditures and the responses of the primary government...

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Disciplining ballots? : (un-intended) effects of voter engagement on the fiscal sustainability of Swiss cantons

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal sustainability of 25 Swiss cantons. Using data of all cantonal popular votes since 1977, our results show that the fiscal reaction of cantonal governments to an increase in the debt to GDP...

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Role of finance in Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman model of international trade

Marjit, Sugata; Dutta, Meghna; Roy, Moushakhi - 2022

This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies … mechanisms by which finance can affect the main results of the conventional model. The key results are as follows. Perfect credit … output per variety. Thus, availability of finance will determine a specific trade pattern between richer and poorer nations …

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Proprietary public finance : on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2011

finance, however, is comparatively scarce. I argue that proprietary rule emerges out of anarchy and its main alternative …

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The Swedish fiscal policy council : watchdog with a broad remit

Calmfors, Lars - 2012

The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council (FPC) set up in 2007 is one example of the recent international trend to create independent fiscal watchdogs. The FPC has established itself as an important participant in the Swedish economic policy discussion. The FPC has small resources and a broad remit...

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What should fiscal councils do?

Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011

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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Fiscal transfers and fiscal sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2014

We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...

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