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This paper distinguishes between two components of government consumption, expenditure on final goods and expenditure on hours, and compares the effects of changes in these two on the current account. I find that changes in government expenditure on hours do not directly affect the current...
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Before the work of Ronald Coase, economists argued that externalities-unpriced benefits or costs-constituted the main exception to the rule that Adam Smith's invisible hand will efficiently allocate resources. Coase showed that externalities may or may not require a government solution,...
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a reduction in defense expenditures. He shows that use of the dividend to reduce capital taxes causes consumption to … directions, but whether output rises or falls is uncertain. Using the peace dividend to increase public investment will also …
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This paper studies the effects of asymmetries in re-election probabilities across parties on public policy and its … subsequent propagation to the economy. The struggle between opposing groups — that disagree on the composition of public … overspending on public goods arise, as resources are more valuable when in power. Because the party enjoying an electoral advantage …
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Two often-divergent U.S. GDP estimates are available, a widely-used expenditure-side version GDPE, and a much less widely-used income-side version GDI . The authors propose and explore a "forecast combination" approach to combining them. They then put the theory to work, producing a superior...
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We provide a new and superior measure of U.S. GDP, obtained by applying optimal signal-extraction techniques to the (noisy) expenditure-side and income-side estimates. Its properties -- particularly as regards serial correlation -- differ markedly from those of the standard expenditure-side...
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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …
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Aid is said to be fungible at the aggregate level if it raises government expenditures by less than the total amount …
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