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Wage-Price Dynamics and Structural Reforms in Japan

Porcellacchia, Davide - 2016

Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the … role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance … reforms may contribute to Japan's short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural …

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Fiscal Policy Implications for Labor Market Outcomes in Middle-Income Countries

Lemus, Antonio - 2015

Many governments have initiated public employment programs or expanded the existing ones in response to high unemployment. However, in many middle-income countries, a relatively large government coexists with persistently high unemployment. This paper explores the question of whether public...

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Fiscal Rules and the Budget Process

Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - 2006

This paper examines the rationale for the imposition of fiscal rules as a way to reduce budgetary imbalances. It presents theoretical arguments for the existence of a quot;fiscal deficit biasquot; and the empirical evidence on the economic, political and institutional factors leading to this...

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The Design of Fiscal Reform Packages : Insights from a Theoretical Endogenous Growth Model

Hodge, Andrew - 2016

This paper studies the impact on growth, welfare, and government debt of fiscal reform packages in a theoretical model drawing together three key features of the endogenous growth literature: (i) investment in technology (in the form of human capital) offsets diminishing marginal productivity of...

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Italy : Toward a Growth-Friendly Fiscal Reform

Andrle, Michal - 2018

Published in late 2017, the Italian medium-term fiscal plan aims to achieve structural balanceby 2020, although concrete, high-quality measures to meet the target are yet to be specified.This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion by (i) assessing spending patterns to identifyareas for...

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A Balancing Act : Reform Options for Paraguay's Fiscal Responsibility Law

David, Antonio C. - 2017

Paraguay faces a trade-off between building fiscal credibility and amending the existing fiscal rule to accommodate infrastructure investment and provide space for countercyclical policies. In this paper, we discuss several alternative fiscal rules for Paraguay and present simulations of debt...

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Fiscal Transparency and the Performance of Government Financial Assets

Seiferling, Mike - 2015

Stock-flow adjustments are typically measured as the difference between changes in gross debt and deficits. These are interpreted as a proxy for unexplained fiscal discrepancies, and often associated with a lack of fiscal transparency. However, such measures fail to capture the role of financial...

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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets, and the Poor

Blejer, Mario I. - 2013

In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor`s work effort. The literature, however,...

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A Fiscal Job? An Analysis of Fiscal Policy and the Labor Market

Bova, Elva - 2015

This paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on employment through the lenses of Okun's Law. Looking at the panel of OECD countries over the past three decades, we find that fiscal policy can affect employment beyond the impact it is traditionally assumed to exert through the output...

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Policy Analysis and Forecasting in the World Economy : A Panel Unobserved Components Approach

Vitek, Francis - 2012

This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...

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