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Schclarek, Alfredo - 2004

This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...

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The 2008 financial crisis and taxation policy

Hemmelgarn, Thomas; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A. - 2010

The 2008 financial crisis is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. It has been characterised by a housing bubble in a context of rapid credit expansion, high risk-taking and exacerbated financial leverage, leading to deleveraging and credit crunch when the bubble burst....

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Gender bias in tax systems

Stotsky, Janet G. - 1996

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Globalization, tax competition and the future of tax systems

Tanzi, Vito - 1996

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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?

Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008

According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconmic Stability and Growth: The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah; Hamilton, Kirk; Kazimov, Kazim - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of … find that resource windfalls initially crowd out non-resource GDP which then increases as a result of the fiscal expansion …. Third, we find that in the long run resource windfalls have negative effects on non-resource sector GDP growth. Yet, the …

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