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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 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...

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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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Excess finance and growth : don't lose sight of expansions!

Grjebine, Thomas; Tripier, Fabien - 2015

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Selling favors in the lab : experiments on campaign finance reform

Houser, Daniel (contributor); Stratmann, Thomas (contributor) - 2006

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The adverse effect of finance on growth

Fajeau, Maxime - 2020

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Fiscal windfall curse

Berset, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2019

We study the impact of a one-off exogenous fiscal windfall on local public finances in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The windfall was due to the IPO of Glencore on the London Stock Exchange in 2011. As a result, its CEO paid an extraordinary tax bill of approximately CHF 360 million....

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