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Winning Connections? Special Interests and the Sale of Failed Banks
Igan, Deniz - 2018
We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We … higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent of the total resolution losses. We also find that lobbying winners … have worse operating and stock market performance than their non-lobbying counterparts, suggesting that lobbying results in …
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Successful Austerity in the United States, Europe and Japan
Batini, Nicoletta - 2012
The output effects of 2009 fiscal expansions have been hotly debated. But the discussion of fiscal multipliers is even more relevant now that several European countries have had to quickly retract their stimulus measures in an effort to regain market confidence. Using regime-switching VARs we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098618
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Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows
Leeper, Eric M. - 2012
News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102255
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Walking Hand in Hand : Fiscal Policy and Growth in Advanced Economies
Cottarelli, Carlo - 2012
Implementation of fiscal consolidation by advanced economies in coming years needs to take into account the short and long-run interactions between economic growth and fiscal policy. Many countries must reduce high public debt to GDP ratios that penalize longterm growth. However, fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102268
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Debt Reduction, Fiscal Adjustment, and Growth in Credit-Constrained Economies
Baldacci, Emanuele - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of fiscal consolidations associated with public debt reduction on medium-term output growth during periods of private debt deleveraging. The analysis covers 107 countries and 79 episodes of public debt reduction driven by discretionary fiscal adjustments during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071366
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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers : The Germany-Central European Supply Chain
Elekdag, Selim Ali - 2013
Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic integration which has lead to the development of a dynamic supply chain within Europe — the Germany-Central European Supply Chain (GCESC). Model-based simulations suggest two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073772
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The Composition of Fiscal Consolidation Matters : Policy Simulations for Hungary
Guerson, Alejandro - 2013
This paper evaluates policy alternatives to achieve permanent fiscal consolidation in Hungary, based on a general equilibrium calibration. The main finding is that the composition of the consolidation, as determined by the mix of revenue and expenditure measures, has important implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073774
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Assessing the Impact and Phasing of Multi-Year Fiscal Adjustment : A General Framework
Bi, Ran - 2013
This paper provides a general framework to assess the output and debt dynamics of an economy undertaking multi-year fiscal adjustment. The framework allows country-specific assumptions about the magnitude and persistence of fiscal multipliers, hysteresis effects, and endogenous financing costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076316
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Fiscal Consolidation in Israel : A Global Fiscal Model Perspective
Elekdag, Selim Ali - 2006
Fiscal consolidation has become an important policy prescription for many emerging market countries (EMCs), particularly for the highly indebted ones. Although prudent fiscal policies tend to reduce vulnerabilities, their implementation is usually postponed. This paper represents, to the best of...
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Do Fiscal Rules Cause Better Fiscal Balances? A New Instrumental Variable Strategy
Caselli, Francesca - 2019
This paper estimates the causal effect of fiscal rules on fiscal balances in a panel of 142 countries over the period 1985-2015. Our instrumental variable strategy exploits the geographical diffusion of fiscal rules across countries. The intuition is that reforms in neighboring countries may...
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