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The challenge of restoring debt sustainability in a deep economic recession: the case of Greece

Monokroussos, Platon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The present paper studies the evolution of the Greek public debt ratio under different assumptions regarding the size and the degree of persistence of fiscal multiplies, the implementation profile of the applied fiscal adjustment and the response of financial markets to fiscal consolidation. The...

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The Challenge of Restoring Debt Sustainability in a Deep Economic Recession: The case of Greece

Monokroussos, Platon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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Evaluation logics in the third sector

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...

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Term limits and electoral accountability

Smart, Michael; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters’ ability to reward politicians with re-election, appear counterproductive. We show that despite the disciplining effect of elections, term...

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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

formulation and implementation attests to the significance of legal norms in constituting new spaces of financial accountability …

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Government constraints and economic voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

economic reforms imposed by the EU and the IMF. However, recent theories of accountability would predict lower levels of … international structures, government constraints and democratic accountability. …

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Government Constraints and Economic Voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

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Are there any Animal Spirits behind the Scenes of the Euro area Sovereign Debt Crisis?

Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper reveals the underlying market’s preferences over the on going Euro area sovereign debt crisis. It builds on a loss function with reference to the ‘basis’, the difference between the spread over swap and Credit Default Swap (CDS) for sovereign bonds. This loss function is general...

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Liberalization, globalization and the dynamics of democracy in India

Nachane, Dilip M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is … (iii) from material development to social welfare and democracy. We examine each of these sub-links in detail with a view …

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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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