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What determines fiscal policy?: evidence from German states
Berger, Helge; Holler, Anika - 2007
This paper explores the factors behind the time path of real spending and revenue in the West German states from 1975 to 2004. The empirical approach stresses robustness and takes into account a large set of economic and political variables. Our results suggest that common economic factors and,...
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Can we rely upon fiscal policy estimates in countries with unreported production of 15 per Cent (or more) of GDP?
Basile, Raffaella; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2011
: quarterly fiscal variables on accrual basis and a time series estimate of tax evasion for the period 1981:1-2006:4. Following … unless the dynamics of the hidden and regular components of the GDP are disentangled. Changes in public spending and the tax … rate generate a reallocation from underground to the regular economy which contributes to obscure the spending and tax …
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