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Yugoslav inflation unfolded as a classic wage-price-exchange rate spiral through the 1970s and 1980s and exploded into hyperinflation in the last quarter of 1989. This paper examines the process of monetary accommodation of inflation, the behavior of demand for money, and the interaction between...
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Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits-particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)-this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance for...
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the recent past, ACE systems have been used in Austria, Croatia, and Italy. Brazil still applies a variant of such a …
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Austria has probably the world’s highest pension expenditures relative to its economic size, largely because of the …
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Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the period studied. State-owned banks are found to be...
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The Austrian government is about to introduce a new fiscal management framework. The first step is to introduce a medium-term budgetary framework, including an expenditure rule. The paper focuses on this first step. The purpose is to describe and evaluate the Austrian model in light of other...
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Austria faces significant population aging. This will increase public spending on pensions, health care, and long …-term care, while tax and social security revenues will fall. This paper analyzes the fiscal burden facing Austria due to aging … and the policy steps necessary to address it. The paper finds that Austria is not well prepared to meet the fiscal burden …
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This paper investigates the currency reforms undertaken subsequent to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. The reforms were motivated by the lack of coordination of monetary policy and the absence of a rule for sharing seigniorage. Because the Successor States’ reforms were...
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