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Devouring the Leviathan: fiscal policy and public expenditure in Colombia

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

Overall, this paper presents a white swan that seems to confirm the hypothesis of Alesina / Tabellini / Campante (2008). Fiscal policy in many developing countries is procyclical. Specifically, the former may explain monetary policy failures associated with problems of political agency. And in...

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Política tributaria y economía fiscal La posición Hayek (1959, 1979) con comentarios de Brenann/Buchanan (1980).

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

This article describes the argumentative structure of Hayek on the relationship between tax policy and redistribution …

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Política Fiscal, Ingresos y Desigualdad en Colombia (1990-2015)

Estrada, Fernando; Trujillo, Marlyn Tatiana; Pardo, Diego - 2018

Due to the supported economic growth of the first decade of the 21st century, Colombia managed to reduce the levels of … distribution. To that effect, the redistributive impact of the fiscal action in Colombia, Latin America and the group of country … the income and public expenditures behavior in Colombia was carried out from 1990 until 2015, highlighting two fundamental …

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The myth of “neutrality” and the rhetoric of “stability”: macroeconomic policy in democratic South Africa

Isaacs, Gilad - 2014

This paper offers a comprehensive review of macroeconomic policy in democratic South Africa. It does so with two distinctive features. First, macroeconomic policy is analysed on four interlocking, and sometimes conflicting, levels: [1] policy as provided “on paper” in government plans and...

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Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

Moser, Christian; Olea de Souza e Silva, Pedro - 2019

redistribution. To solve large-scale versions of this problem numerically, we propose a general, computationally stable, and …

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Do international remittances cause Dutch disease?

Beja, Edsel Jr. - 2010

Dutch disease is a condition whereby a booming export sector along with a concomitant strengthening of the non-tradable sector cause a deterioration in the rest of the tradable sector. Regression analysis finds that Dutch disease due to international remittances appears to afflict the developing...

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Adopting the Euro: a synthetic control approach

Gabriel, Ricardo Duque; Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2020

We investigate whether joining the European Monetary Union and losing the ability to set monetary policy affected the economic growth of 12 Eurozone countries. We use the synthetic control approach to create a counterfactual scenario for how each Eurozone country would have evolved without...

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Adopting the Euro: a synthetic control approach

Gabriel, Ricardo Duque; Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2020

We investigate whether joining the European Monetary Union and losing the ability to set monetary policy affected the economic growth of Eurozone countries. We use the synthetic control approach to create a counterfactual scenario for how each Eurozone country would have evolved without adopting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015267104

Políticas sociales y teoría de contratos

Estrada, Fernando - 2006

This article aims to make an approach to the definition and meaning of social policies through the theory of contracts, a distinction between these and public policy. For this, the contributions of some officials of the Municipality of Medellín and other municipal organizations in a focus group...

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L'ombre de la crise

Lagadec, Gael; Descombels, Alain - 2009

This book aims to study the consequences of the subprime crisis for New Caledonia, a French overseas Pacific territory. The situation of New-Caledonia is specific in many ways, since this territory is undergoing an institutional process of emancipation from France. On the first hand, New...

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