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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg

Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011

for demographic characteristics, country of origin, cohort and age at migration although cross-country differences exist …

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The 2008 Financial Crisis and Taxation Policy

Hemmelgarn, Thomas - 2010

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Committees and special interests

Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003

committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal. …

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Public sector efficiency

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2003

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2004

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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Towards expenditure rules and fiscal sanity in the euro area

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Fuentes, Jesus Sanchez; … - 2010

The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...

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The gains from early intervention in Europe

Hallett, Andrew Hughes; Kuhn, Moritz; Warmedinger, Thomas - 2010

This paper does two things. First it examines the use of real time inter-annual cash data and the role of early interventions for improving the monitoring of national fiscal policies and the correction of fiscal indiscipline. Early warnings are important because they allow us to spread the...

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Transmission of government spending shocks in the euro area

Kirchner, Markus; Cimadomo, Jacopo; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...

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Fiscal policy and growth

Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - 2010

In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...

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The impact of numerical expenditure rules on budgetary discipline over the cycle

Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Rother, … - 2010

We study the impact of numerical expenditure rules on the propensity of governments to deviate from expenditure targets in response to surprises in cyclical conditions. Theoretical considerations suggest that due to political fragmentation in the budgetary process expenditure policy might be...

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