model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export … developments are relevant for short-run export dynamics particularly during more extreme stages of the business cycle. A …

export market and vice versa takes place in a smooth manner. Areas of weak reaction of exports to changes in domestic demand … constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of a smooth transition … regression model and find that domestic demand developments and uncertainty are relevant for short-run export dynamics …

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

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 …

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 …

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