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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in … contrast to common view and policy practice. -- user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality …

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Determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in transition economies : a latent class analysis

Poghosyan, Tigran (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2008

less efficient banks. This result is in line with the efficiency hypothesis. -- Cross-border bank acquisitions ; latent …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

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Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods : a general equilibrium study of the role of the state

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2011

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …

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Trade and business cycle synchronization in OECD countries : a re-examination

Inklaar, Robert (contributor); … - 2005

This paper re-examines the relationship between trade intensity and business cycle synchronization for 21 OECD countries during 1970-2003. Instead of using instrumental variables, we estimate a multivariate model including variables capturing specialisation, financial integration, and similarity...

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Trade, trust and institutions

Yu, Shu; Haan, Jakob de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2011

To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...

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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2009

Nowadays, it is widely believed that greater disclosure and clarity over policy may lead to greater predictability of central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the information provided by a Taylor rule model in which...

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Does ECB communication help in predicting its interest rate decisions?

Jansen, David-Jan (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor) - 2006

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Measuring synchronicity and co-movement of business cycles with an application to the euro area

Mink, Mark (contributor); Jacobs, Jan (contributor); … - 2007

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