The purpose of this paper is to test hysteresis of the Romanian labour force participation rate, by using time series data, with quarterly frequency, covering the period 1999Q1-2013Q4. The main results reveal that the Romanian labour force participation rate is a nonlinear process and has a...

We revisited the evidence of Karagianni et al. (Int Rev Econ Fin 21:186–194, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">2012</CitationRef>) and Tiwari (Econ Bull 32:147–159, <CitationRef CitationID="CR31">2012</CitationRef>) by employing a recently developed and more powerful nonlinear Granger-causality test proposed by Nishiyama et al. (J Econ 165:112–127, <CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2011</CitationRef>) to investigate the...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

The paper explores the effects of shadow economy on tax revenues, in the case of several African countries, based on a panel-model approach. The dataset covers the period 1999-2007. The main results reveal that the change in shadow economy has a significant and negative impact on change in tax...

The human movements across borders, societies and cultures are not running in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm and the power relations between different social groups, all define the...

The public authorities (the agency) messages could play a key role in the social subjects’ decisions. How and when the agency communicates the path of its future policies influences the present social and economic architecture. The aim of this paper is to advance an explanatory framework for...

The theme of public expenditure has been of great interest in the latest years.Focusing on government size, role of government and the efficiency of the public sector becomes aneven more important issue nowadays when the financial crisis has covered severly almost alleconomies worlwide. The...

The fiscal policy architecture is linked both with the political agenda of the public authorities as well as with the social preferences. The connections between these two determinants are evolving in a complicated web of reciprocal interactions. The purpose of this paper is to propose a simple...

The way in which the social subjects take decisions, the interactions established between these, the web of social institutions and rules, the architecture of the power relationships between the various “points of social coagulation” have as a foundation a complex set of determinants, in...

Economic policies and, particularly, fiscal policies are not designed and implemented in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm and the power relations between different social groups define...

Using a panel-model approach, this paper investigates the relationship between the level of taxation and democracy. The dataset covers the period 2002--2008, and includes 51 countries. The study suggests that a significant increase of taxes, without a major negative reaction of taxpayers, can be...