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larger reform package of economic liberalisation in formerly overregulated economies, (b) as a reaction to an increasing …
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During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
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This paper develops a political-economic model of fiscal policy - one in which government resources are a common property' out of which interest groups can finance expenditures on their preferred items. This setup has striking macroeconomic implications. Transfers are higher than a benevolent...
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smoothing. Second deficits can be eliminated through a fiscal reform, but such a reform may only take place after a" delay …
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political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the possible interactions …
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capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …
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