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Efficient energy investment and fiscal adjustment in Senegal

Issoufou, Salifou; Buffie, Edward F.; Diop, Mouhamadou Bamba - 2014

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Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal

Issoufou, Salifou - 2014

growth, real wages and the supply of public services. Senegal does not need, however, to undertake such difficult fiscal …

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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022

We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...

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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets

Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020

policy programs and their impact on labor market outcomes, inequality, and poverty. The paper illustrates the model …We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different …

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Fiscal transfers and fiscal sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2014

We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...

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Fiscal equalization schemes and fiscal sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2012

Fiscal sustainability tests have largely ignored the institutional setting of fiscal policy making. Fiscal equalization schemes in federal states are one such institution. We examine whether German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal equalization...

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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization

Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020

We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary … economic growth in Sweden can be compared. We do not find evidence suggesting that protectionist policies influenced economic … growth and examine channels why. Tariffs increased government revenue. However, the results do not suggest that the …

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Ideologically-charged terminology : austerity, fiscal consolidation, and sustainable governance

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

-2014 and examine how austerity is associated with economic growth. The results show that depending on how austerity is measured …

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Fiscal rules : historical, modern, and sub-national growth effects

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

We examine how fiscal rules influence economic growth. The results show that constitutional fiscal rules promoted … growth from the Industrial Revolution until World War II (1789-1950) and also increased modern economic growth (1985 … rules also increased economic growth at the sub-national level. …

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