Search Results - subject_exact:"Public economics"

Direct democracy and state government finances

Heim, Rino; Marxer, Benedikt - 2025

This paper examines the causal impact of citizen-initiated ballot measures, defined as initiatives and veto referendums, on state government revenues and expenditures. Across U.S. states, direct democratic institutions have been introduced at different points in time, creating a setting that...

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Distributed public economics and decentralized

Papastaikoudis, Ioannis; Prodromídis, Pródromos-Ioánnis - 2025

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An analysis of ASN (2021–2023) and its effects on academic recruitment in public economics

Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2025

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South Sudan Public Finance Review : A Narrow Path to Recovery

2026

This Public Finance Review (PFR)—the first such assessment by the World Bank for South Sudan— aims to evaluate the state of the nation’s public finances and provide actionable recommendations to create fiscal space for public investment and service delivery while strengthening fiscal...

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Fiscal seigniorage and price level determination in a currency union

Schmidt, Sebastian - 2026

I study price level determination in a currency union when some member countries' government securities earn a convenience yield. These "convenience assets" generate fiscal seigniorage revenues that, given appropriate fiscal and monetary policies, back the union's price level, much like primary...

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Fiscal seigniorage and price level determination in a currency union

Schmidt, Sebastian - 2026

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South Africa’s inflation : monetary or fiscal?

Liu, Guangling; Solomon, Christopher D. - 2026

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South Africa's inflation : monetary or fiscal

Liu, Guangling; Solomon, Christopher D. - 2025

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Original sin, sovereign default, and the limits of the fiscal theory of the price level

Ocampo, Emilio - 2026

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) argues that inflation adjusts to ensure that the real value of government liabilities equals the expected present value of future primary surpluses. This mechanism is plausible in economies whose public debt is predominantly denominated in domestic...

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Finanzwissenschaftliche Überprüfung des kommunalen Finanzausgleichs in Brandenburg für das Ausgleichsjahr 2027 : Gutachten im Auftrag des Ministeriums der Finanzen und für Europa des Landes Brandenburg : Endfassung vom 16.12.2025

Döring, Thomas; Gerhards, Eva; Monsef, Roschan; … - 2026

Das Ministerium der Finanzen und für Europa des Landes Brandenburg hat das Finanzwissenschaftliche Forschungsinstitut an der Universität zu Köln (FiFo Köln) und Professor Dr. Thomas Döring (sofia Darmstadt) mit einer finanzwissenschaftlichen Begutachtung des brandenburgischen kommunalen...

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Gambling with state budgets : legalized sports betting and lost lottery revenue

Coombs, Kyle; Madonia, Greg; Nencka, Peter; Smith, Austin C. - 2026

Legislators often justify legalizing controversial markets, such as sports betting, by citing the potential for new tax revenue to fund popular public programs. However, new revenue from sports betting may cannibalize existing revenue from state-run lotteries, undermining a key rationale for...

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The labor market impacts of GLP-1s

Daysal, N. Meltem; Fredrickson, Camille; Kristiansen, … - 2026

We estimate the causal impacts of GLP-1 treatment on labor market outcomes using linked Danish administrative data and a matched stacked difference-in-differences design. We compare patients who initiate GLP-1 treatment during the first two years of Semaglutide availability to observably similar...

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Dynamics of Democratization and the Organization of Education

Machielsen, Bas; van Besouw, Bram - 2026

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Fiscally sustainable pensions in Pakistan

Khalid, Mahmood; Faraz, Naseem; Irum, Aisha - 2023

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Fiscally sustainable pensions in Pakistan

Khalid, Mahmood; Faraz, Naseem; Irum, Aisha - 2023

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Space Funding and Geopolitical Competition: How Information Shapes Public Support

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2025

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The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2025

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Colonial governance and resource allocation in the British West Indies (1838-1938)

Bertinelli, Luisito; Gatti, Fabio; Strobl, Eric - 2025

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Direct Democracy and State Government Finances

Heim, Rino; Marxer, Benedikt - 2025

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Ghana Public Finance Review

2025

Ghana's development path, although registering past successes, faces a series of current and future challenges. Ghana succeeded inhalving its poverty rate between 1991 and 2016, from 87 percent (US$3.65 per day in 2017 purchasing power parity [PPP]) to about 50 percent of the population,...

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Eswatini Public Finance Review

2025

Eswatini's fundamental policy challenge is to address the longstanding factors that have constrained growth and hindered broad-based improvements in living standards. Given the state's significant role in the economy, the build-up of macro imbalances, and slow improvements in social indicators,...

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Croatia Subnational Public Finance Review

2025

The Subnational public finance report is the first in a series of World Bank reports that analyze local and regional government fiscal and financial developments in Croatia. The objective of this work is to offer policy advice on improving public service delivery in a fiscally efficient and...

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Zimbabwe Public Finance Review

2025

How can Zimbabwe create the necessary fiscal space to absorb quasi-fiscal expenditures, reverse its upward trend in public debt, and support macroeconomic stability? Zimbabwe is faced with an unsustainable and growing stock of public debt. To service this debt, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)...

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The impact of austerity on mortality and life expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2025

This paper studies the impact of austerity measures implemented by the UK government after 2010 on life expectancy and mortality. We combine administrative data sources to create a panel dataset spanning from 2002 to 2019. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we estimate the effect of...

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The impact of austerity on mortality and life expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2025

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The impact of austerity on mortality and life expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2024

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Government debt and inflation : a cross-country investigation of the fiscal theory of the price level

Weber, Philipp; Feld, Lars P. - 2025

In the early 2020s sharp surge of inflation, unprecedentedly high levels of government debt and deficits fueled attention for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL). This theoretical framework for fiscally induced inflation is well-known and controversially discussed. However, empirical...

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Monetary-fiscal policy mix and inflation in Korea

Chon, Sora; Kim, Wongi; Shim, Seri - 2025

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Space funding and geopolitical competition : how information shapes public support

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2025 - This version December 31, 2024

The space sector has remained central to geopolitics since the end of the Cold War, leading to an increase in national space spending worldwide. This study investigates how public support for space funding is influenced by information about (i) national space spending, (ii) the spending of...

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Evidence from the dead : new estimates of wealth inequality based on the distribution of estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2025

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Evidence from the dead : new estimates of wealth inequality based on the distribution of estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2025

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Evidence from the dead : new estimates of wealth inequality based on the distribution of estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2024

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Distributed optimization in public economics via decentralized public finance : a proposal for the spatial distribution of public goods and services

Papastaikoudis, Ioannis; Prodromídis, Pródromos-Ioánnis - 2025

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Cabo Verde Public Finance Review

2025

Cabo Verde has long been a story of economic success, but growth decelerated in the last decade and has become more volatile - with implications for fiscal performance. Economic growth and social indicators improved significantly after the country's independence from Portugal in 1975, driven by...

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A game-theoretic foundation for the fiscal theory of the price level

Norman, Thomas W. L.; Willems, Tim - 2025

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A game-theoretic foundation for the fiscal theory of the price level

Norman, Thomas W L; Willems, Tim - 2025

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Colonial governance and resource allocation in the British West Indies (1838-1938)

Bertinelli, Luisito; Gatti, Fabio; Strobl, Eric - 2025

Plantation elites continued to dominate local colonial governments in the British West Indies even after the abolition of slavery in 1834, directing public spending towards maintaining public order and protecting their property. As such they resisted any reforms that threatened their power,...

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Government expenditure shocks and inflation : a new fiscal policy rule with monetary and fiscal interactions

Garcia-Barragnan, Fernando; Liu, Guangling - 2025

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Guatemala Public Finance Review

2025

This Public Finance Review (PFR) is the first since 2013, and it complements other World Bank Group advisory support and analytics. The PFR updates the fiscal analysis with data from 2013 through 2023 and expands into areas not previously covered, such as revenues, fiscal risks, and...

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Fiscal regimes and sustainability : insights from post-war Germany

Afonso, António; Jablonowski, Joshua - 2025

This paper investigates fiscal sustainability and the prevailing fiscal regime in the Federal Republic of Germany. Using annual data from 1950 to 2023, the long-term relationship between the primary balance and government debt is estimated using a single-equation error correction model (SECM)....

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Mongolia Public Finance Review

2025

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 Mongolia Public Finance Review. It is intended for policymakers and practitioners who are interested to know more about the efficiency of health spending in Mongolia. It can...

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Evolution and theoretical implications of the utility concept

Di Foggia, Giacomo; Arrigo, Ugo; Beccarello, Massimo - 2025

We review the evolution of the concept of utility in economics, addressing the conceptual and terminological fragmentation that characterises the interdisciplinary debate. This study adopts the scoping review framework to systematically analyse the main theoretical approaches, ranging from...

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al- Zaytoonah University journal of business

al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan - Amman : Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan - Vol. 1, no. 1 (2025)-

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Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

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Public finance in the era of the COVID-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022 - This Version: September 2022

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Public finance in the era of the Covid-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

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It's fundamental: welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from "public finance" to "public economics"

Medema, Steven G. - 2022 - Version 1.3

In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...

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It's fundamental: Welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from "public finance" to "public economics"

Medema, Steven G. - 2022

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Análisis del género como bien público y su función de bienestar social: Elección colectiva vs. elección pública

Sánchez-Bayón, Antonio - 2024

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Análisis del género como bien público y su función de bienestar social : elección colectiva vs. elección pública

Sánchez-Bayón, Antonio - 2024

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Estimating the relationship between public and private inputs for K-12 education: Evidence from longitudinal microdata

Vinson, Philip - 2024

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Estimating the relationship between public and private inputs for K-12 education : evidence from longitudinal microdata

Vinson, Philip - 2024

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Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

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Performative state capacity and climate (in)action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

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Essays in public economics and on equality of opportunity

Schüle, Paul Valentin - 2024

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Essays in public economics and on equality of opportunity

Schüle, Paul Valentin - 2024

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Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality Using the Distribution of Estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2024

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On the mechanics of fiscal inflations

Bassetto, Marco; Benzoni, Luca; Hall, Jason - 2024

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we wish to better explain the relationship between Sargent and Wallace's (1981) unpleasant monetarist arithmetic, the closely connected fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL), and the monetarist view of inflation. Second, we discuss how the recent...

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Energy transition in oil-dependent economies : public discount rates for investment project evaluation

Karanfil, Fatih; Pierru, Axel - 2024

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Exiting from quantitative easing in an era of large government debt : inflation or default?

Niwa, Hidekazu - 2024

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The effect of monetary policies on inflation : A fiscal perspective

Jiang, Shifu - 2024

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Evidence from the dead : new estimates of wealth inequality using the distribution of estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2024

This paper studies the estimation of wealth distribution using estates left at death. We establish formal conditions for adopting a simplied version of the classic estate multi- plier method, using only minimal information on estates and mortality. We empirically validate these conditions and...

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Evidence from the dead : new estimates of wealth inequality using the distribution of estates

Alvaredo, Facundo; Berman, Yonatan; Morelli, Salvatore - 2024

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Performative state capacity and climate (in)action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

Climate action requires significant public- and private sector investment to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper documents that large-scale austerity, coupled with barriers to flows of data and a lack of (digital) skills in (local) government, may have been a...

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Performative state capacity and climate (in)action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

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Determinants of municipal investments

Haraldsvik, Marianne; Hopland, Arnt Ove; Kvamsdal, … - 2024

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Cameroon Public Finance Review

2024

Developments over the past few years, which include the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent polycrisis, conflict in several of Cameroon's regions, and fiscal consolidation, have left Cameroon in an extremely tight fiscal situation. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent polycrisis have had averse...

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