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The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...
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economic growth, this study examines empirically the key channels through which fiscal policy impacts economic growth in the … debt financing, governance, efficiency of spending, mixture of taxes can have a significant impact on growth. …
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bond spreads and weak nominal GDP growth, returning to a healthy fiscal position poses a significant challenge. A sustained … trend growth through appropriate structural reforms. The economic adjustment programme supported by the IMF and the EU … public sector efficiency, which provides a growth-friendly avenue for reducing the deficit in a durable way.<p> This Working …
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Purpose One of the main theories regarding the relationship between government expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) is Wagner's law. This law was developed in the late-19th century by Adolph Wagner (1835-1917), a prominent German economist, and depicts that an increase in government...
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Purpose One of the main theories regarding the relationship between government expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) is Wagner's law. This law was developed in the late-19th century by Adolph Wagner (1835-1917), a prominent German economist, and depicts that an increase in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615345
We examine the effects of disaggregated government expenditure on investment using fixed- and random-effect methods. Using the government budget constraint, we explore the effects of tax- and debt-financed expenditure for the full sample, and for sub-samples of developed and developing...
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This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
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This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532279
We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive … effects of entrepreneurial ability on growth, while the joint effect of financial sector reform and entrepreneurship has a non …
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This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic growth in a model of endogenous … growth and search frictions on the labor market. We analyze how savings and the incentive to create new jobs are affected by … observe an increase in both growth and, via the capitalization effect, employment. Most other tax reforms, however, imply a …
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