Using a panel of 33 OECD countries we estimate government spending multipliers for 11 different categories (functions) of spending: General Public Services, Defense, Public Order and Safety, Transport & Communication, Economic Services, Environment Protection, Housing and Community Amenities,...

This paper examines the effect of monopolistic labour unions' behaviour on governments' incentives to undertake labour market reform, inside and outside a symmetric and an asymmetric monetary union (MU). Incentives for reform are increased inside the MU when governments and labour unions move...

This study investigates the tax buoyancy effects in VAT, corporate income tax (CIT) and personal income tax (PIT) revenue in Greece based on previous IMF and OECD studies. The paper finds that the implied estimated elasticity of VAT, PIT and CIT revenue to GDP will be 1.2-1.3, 1.7-1.9 and...