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Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and tenders. Our primary contribution is to analyze how...
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In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced, emerging and low-income) for the period 1980-2014. By means of Fully-Modified OLS and (Pooled) Mean Group estimators, we find that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and...
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This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation … debt sustainability. It recommends integrating such rules into a well-designed fiscal responsibility law and establishing …
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The World Bank and the IMF have adopted a debt sustainability framework (DSF) to evaluate the risk of debt distress in …
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We study the effects of federal purchases on firms' investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. We find that 1 dollar of federal spending increases firms' capital investment by 7 to 11 cents....
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This paper critically reviews recent work regarding the sustainability of public debt. It argues that Debt … Sustainability Analyses (DSAs) should be more than mere mechanical simulation exercises. Instead, a DSA should be linked to some …
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threaten macroeconomic stability as well as fiscal sustainability and intergenerational equity. In three parts, this paper … provides an assessment of the cyclically adjusted fiscal stance, analyzes fiscal sustainability according the permanent income …
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Fiscal sustainability remains a paramount challenge for small economies with high debt and greater vulnerability to … climate change. This paper applies the model-based sustainability test for fiscal policy in a panel of 16 Caribbean countries … fiscal policy response is not adequate to ensure sustainability at higher levels of debt. We also find that the fiscal stance …
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This paper examines a number of structural factors affecting the external debt sustainability of HIPC completion point … compared with many other low-income countries. Achieving and maintaining long-term debt sustainability in completion point …
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The paper offers an approach to assessing the sustainability of public debt taking into account the effect of fiscal …
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