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The Politics of Tax Administration: Evidence from Spain

Esteller-More, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2003

Does there exist a connection between the political power and the tax administration? In this paper, we offer empirical evidence from Spain that there exists. First, the Spanish regional tax administration is not immune to the budgetary situation of the regional government, and tends to exert a...

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Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions in Post-Conflict Countries

Gupta, Sanjeev; Tareq, Shamsuddin; Clements, Benedict; … - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews the key challenges in rebuilding fiscal institutions in post-conflict countries. Based on IMF technical assistance advice, it proposes a three-step framework for the creation or re-establishment of well-functioning public finance institutions: (i) creating a proper legal...

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The Changing Concept of Financial Risk

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

financial risk based on asset classes only is ready for a epistemological change. Currently, the definition of financial risk … suffers from three major deficiencies: (1) financial risk is insufficiently measured by the conventional second - order … moments; (2) financial risk is assumed to be stable and all distribution moments are assumed to be time-invariant; and (3 …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries?

Neumayer, Eric; Spess, Laura - EconWPA - 2004

Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to- state dispute settlement...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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Private Crop Insurers and the Reinsurance Fund Allocation Decision

Coble, Keith; Dismukes, Robert; Glauber, Joseph - EconWPA - 2005

different risk sharing arrangements. Thus, firm earnings are conditioned upon accurately forecasting policy loss experience. Our … analysis begins with models investigating the characteristics explaining the placement of policies into the assigned risk fund …

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Blackouts, risk, and fat-tailed distributions

Weron, Rafal; Simonsen, Ingve - EconWPA - 2005

guidelines to more accurate models for evaluation of blackout risk. …

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