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Assessing the change in financial condition : an analysis of panel data from US states

Wang, XiaoHu; Liou, Kuotsai Tom - In: Journal of public budgeting, accounting & financial … 21 (2009) 2, pp. 165-197

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Generating the public financial management knowledge base : analyzing method and direction as a sub-discipline of public administration

Frank, Howard A.; Christian, Philip C.; Scutelnicu, Gina - In: Journal of public budgeting, accounting & financial … 21 (2009) 2, pp. 223-246

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What should fiscal councils do?

Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011

The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...

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Proprietary public finance : on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2011

finance, however, is comparatively scarce. I argue that proprietary rule emerges out of anarchy and its main alternative …

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Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation

Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...

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An alternative conditional asymmetry specification for stock returns

Brännäs, Kurt; Nordman, Niklas - 2001

The paper advances the log-generalized gamma distribution as a suitable generator of conditional skewness. Based on the NYSE composite daily returns an asMA-asQGARCH model along with skewness dynamics is estimated. The results indicate a skewness that varies between sizeable negative skewness...

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The dimensions of fiscal governance as the cornerstone of public finance sustainability : a general framework

Giosi, Alessandro; Testarmata, Silvia; Brunelli, Sandro; … - In: Journal of public budgeting, accounting & financial … 26 (2014) 1, pp. 94-139

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The economics of insurance, its borders with finance and implications for systemic regulation

Thimann, Christian - 2015

international finance is "what is insurance and where does insurance end?" This paper aims to elaborate on the economics of … insurance and its borders with general finance. It argues that the classification challenge by regulators partly stems from … terminological confusion between insurance activities and more general financial activities. Insurance and finance both use the same …

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Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation

Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499785

The effects of fiscal institutions on public finance : a survey of the empirical evidence

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2001

This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue, and debt. (ii) Budgetary proce-dures matter...

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