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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"fiscal policy"”.
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Essays In Fiscal Policy
<p>Fiscal policy is investigated in two settings. First, a fully identified neoclassical growth model with rich fiscal policy rules is augmented with non-Ricardian consumers and fit to post-war U.S. data using Bayesian techniques. Allowing transfer payments to directly affect the consumption …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy
… by the real depreciation caused by such policy especially in the case in which debt is denominated in foreign currency. This is not the case under fixed exchange rates, then also under a peg effects are, as expected, quite similar under both currency denominations of debt. The third …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Policy
… the domestic and international effects of fiscal policy shocks on country risk, stock markets returns and trading partners. There are three essays in this study.</p> <p>First essay examines the relative impacts of macroeconomic, financial and political variables on country risk for five …
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Essays in Optimal Fiscal Policy
… articles contribute to the literature on optimal fiscal policy with exogeneous government expenditures and distortionary taxation following Lucas and Stokey (1983) and Aiyagari et al. (2002) (AMSS). The first article extends the framework of AMSS by modelling agents ex ante heterogeneous in …
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Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policy
This dissertation examines issues on taxation, fiscal policy, and governance in developing countries. The three chapters of the dissertation are summarized as follows:In the first chapter, we argue that models of advanced countries are often applied to developing countries with little consideration …
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Essays in monetary and fiscal policy
… the absence of Ricardian equivalence. When �scal policy follows a balanced budget rule, the share of ROTC determines whether an active and/or a passive monetary policy in the sense of Leeper (1991) guarantees determinacy. When a short run public debt asset is introduced, the amount of ROTC …
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Essays on macroeconometrics and fiscal policy
… spending on the economy depends on the monetary policy regime. Conventional wisdom suggests that the government spending multiplier is larger when monetary policy is passive. I estimate a Taylor rule with time-varying coefficients and use the estimated sequence of inflation parameters to inform …
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Essays on fiscal policy and elections
… here investigate the general relation between fiscal policy and elections. Chapter 1 provides a general summary of the 3 main chapters. Chapter 2 examines local and non-local public expenditures and how the two are linked through the political process. Emphasis is placed on the role of voter …
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Essays in monetary and fiscal policy
… consists of three chapters on monetary and fiscal policy. The first chapter explores the importance of redistribution in explaining why monetary policy has aggregate effects on household consumption. I argue that traditional representative agent models focusing on substitution effects ignore …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries
… economy theory of the phenomenon of procyclical fiscal policy. In the model, governments provide public insurance to uninsured households, and time-consistent redistributive policies are countercyclical. The introduction of a political friction, in which alternating governments disagree on the …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… which inequality can be reduced. Redistributive fiscal policy has been considered an important way to reduce inequality and increase economic growth at same time. Considering the relationship between these variables, this study seeks to clarify how fiscal policy affects income inequality and …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Policy and Redistribution
Finally, the third essay estimates the implicit social welfare functions of the USA and Brazil using PSID and PNAD for 1990 on direct taxes. Specifically, a non-parametric method is used to compute the density of the skills distribution and the social welfare functions. Under assumptions on the …
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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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Fiscal policy during the Kennedy administration (1961-1963)
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Fiscal policy during the Kennedy administration (1961-1963)
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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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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Fiscal Policy, Default and Emerging Market Business Cycles
Developing country fiscal policy outcomes documented in data point to stark differences compared with developed ones. Most prominent difference is the excessive volatility of government consumption and transfer payments and their positive correlation relative to output. This seemingly non-optimal …
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Essays on strategic fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities
This dissertation is about fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities in general and focuses on strategic policy in particular. As an introduction to local fiscal policy, we investigated the simultaneous role of partisan effects, of fragmentation, of interaction dynamics, of electoral cycles and of …
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The cyclical and structural stance of fiscal policy
… examines the cyclical and structural stance of fiscal policy. Firstly, to measure the stance of tax policy more accurately, this paper constructs a new tax-indicator – “discretionary tax policy index”. Secondly, incorporating this new dataset, the short-run cyclical stance of tax policy by …
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