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The Impact of Inflation on Budgetary Discipline
Aizenman, Joshua - 1995
This paper investigates budgetary rules for an economy characterized by inflation and volatile relative prices. We view the budgetary process as a limited contingencies contract between the treasury and the ministers. The budgetary process allows a minister, whose realized real budget falls...
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Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America
Alesina, Alberto - 1996
In this paper we collect detailed information on the budget institutions of Latin American countries. We classify these institutions on a `hierarchical'/'collegial' scale, as a function of their transparency and the existence of legislative constraints on the deficit. We then show that...
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Local Government Budgeting : The Econometric Comparison of Political and Bureaucratic Models
Feldstein, Martin - 1977
The current paper presents a method of deciding the question of whether any given stage in the budget process is an example of the "political" or the "bureaucratic" model. We then use it to study local government spending on education. The basis for our method is the important difference between...
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The Household Fallacy
Farmer, Roger - 2018
We refer to the idea that government must 'tighten its belt' as a necessary policy response to higher indebtedness as the household fallacy. We provide a reason to be skeptical of this claim that holds even if the economy always operates at full employment and all markets clear. Our argument...
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Australian Government Balance Sheet Management
Au-Yeung, Wilson - 2006
Based on this framework, we find that a Future Fund portfolio that included (amongst other potential investments) domestic nominal securities and equities of selected countries would reduce overall balance sheet risk
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466348
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Measuring U.S. Fiscal Capacity using Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Jiang, Zhengyang; Lustig, Hanno; Van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use discounted cash flow analysis to measure a country's fiscal capacity. Crucially, the discount rate applied to projected cash flows includes a GDP risk premium. We apply our valuation method to the CBO's projections for the U.S. federal government's deficit between 2022 and 2051 and debt...
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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
Iaryczower, Matias - 2005
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over … decisions in Argentina, and find results consistent with the predictions of the theory …
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A. - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express adults' willingness to pay for changes in child mortality...
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Reforming Budgetary Language
Bradford, David F. - 2001
In the context of several examples of problems associated with present budgetary conventions, I revisit Musgrave's conceptual division of the government's program into Allocation, Distribution and Stabilization Branch subbudgets. I suggest progress towards Musgrave's ideal of a more informative...
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The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Buiter, Willem H. - 1999
or unsound argument'. The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and … proponents of the fiscal theory of the price level do not accept the fundamental proposition that the government's intertemporal …. Policy conclusions could be drawn from the fiscal theory of the price level that would be harmful if they influenced the …
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