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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Fiscal Rules"”.
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Essays on current account dynamics and fiscal rules in sub-Saharan Africa
Large and persistent current account and fiscal deficits coexisting alongside high public debt levels pose significant risks to macroeconomic stability and limit policymaking options. This thesis focuses on the current account dynamics and fiscal policy in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Over the …
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability for Macroeconomic Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
This dissertation investigates the role of fiscal rules for fiscal space, debt sustainability dynamics, and macroeconomic stability in economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated on the premise that fiscal policy plays a primary role in a country's policy undercurrents, and that fiscal …
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Oil Boom, Fiscal Policy and Economic Development: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Role of Alternative Fiscal Rules In Ghana’s Emerging Petroleum Economy
The objectives of the study are to assess the fiscal sustainability and development impacts of Ghana’s fiscal rule for allocating petroleum revenues to the annual budget against alternative fiscal rules - the permanent income and the bird-in-hand rules. Fiscal sustainability is measured by …
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Local Fiscal Sustainability within American Federalism
… (OPEB) liabilities impose major threats to local fiscal sustainability, which increases governments' default risk and crowds out funding for essential local services. To close the funding gaps, localities may apply a wide range of fiscal instruments, including increasing taxes, fees, and user …
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On the Local Economic and Political Consequences of Controversial Policies
… Turnout and Populism: The Case of Local Fiscal Rules, my co-author Salvatore Lattanzio and I explore the political effects of austerity further by homing in on the link between austerity exposure and populism support. Once more exploiting local geographic variation in austerity exposure …
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Timing and expectations in the theory of taxation
… take these costs into account in their choice of fiscal rules.
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Essays on fiscal policy and the pricing of sovereign debt
… of three essays which relate to the conduct of fiscal policy and the pricing of sovereign debt. The first chapter examines the credibility of official budgetary projections produced by the fiscal authorities of EU member states, as required under the provisions of the Stability and Growth Pact. …
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Institutions, fiscal transparency and fiscal policy outcomes
… decisions on reporting and revising its fiscal data, and reforming its accounting system into an accrual basis. The effect of accrual accounting adoption on fiscal policy outcomes is also studied. While the literature analyzes only developed countries, we construct the extensive panel …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
… The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of fiscal policy in different economic environments. The results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, fiscal multipliers are not necessarily smaller in countries relatively open to trade and financial flows and operating under flexible exchange …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
… The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of fiscal policy in different economic environments. The results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, fiscal multipliers are not necessarily smaller in countries relatively open to trade and financial flows and operating under flexible exchange …
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Fiscal Policy, Current Account Dynamics and External Adjustment
… question of this thesis is the potential of fiscal policy to stabilise asymmetric shocks and macroeconomic fluctuations at the level of EMU member states, with a special focus on external imbalances. After a short introduction, Chapter 2 analyses in a small open economy DSGE model the …
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… to improve their re-election chances by using fiscal instruments, like deficits. Governments can do so, as they can shift voters’ expectations of government competence because some voters are impaired by uninformedness. Chapter 2 highlights that uninformed voters may also be impaired in another …
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Economic Growth and Public Debt: Beyond Debt-Thresholds. Theoretical and Empirical Issues.
… academic research and the implementation of the fiscal corrective policies was the empirical paper proposed by Reinhart and Rogoff in 2010 at the dawn of the crisis. Reinhart and Rogoff (2010), in a large panel of countries, identified a critical threshold of 90% of the debt-to-GDP ratio beyond …