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The Impact of Containment Measures and Monetary and Fiscal Responses on US Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220137
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Public Finance in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Butikofer, Aline - 2022
The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243165
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Taxation, corruption and the exchange rate regime
Hefeker, Carsten - 2009
. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264571
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Inflation Persistence in Europe : The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and of the Russia-Ukraine War
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
inflation persistence in both the euro zone and the European Union as a whole (EU27). For this purpose a fractional integration … evidence of a significant increase in inflation persistence (especially in the case of the EU27, for which in addition to jumps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242004
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Japan's Low Inflation Conundrum
Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2022
The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353433
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264291
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Productive government expenditure and economic growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264372
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Economic and political determinants of budget deficits in the European Union: a dynamic random coefficient approach
Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - 2009
This paper formulates a dynamic Random Coefficient Model (RCM) to consider a set of popular determinants of public deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264557
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of budget deficits in the European Union
Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - 2009
Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic behaviour of policymakers which leads to political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264607
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Political stability and fiscal policy : time series evidence for the Swiss federal level since 1849
Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2009
This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series analysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266053