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Restructuring and insolvency in Europe : policy options in the implementation of the EU directive

Garrido, José María; DeLong, Chanda; Rasekh, Amira; … - 2021

The Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency sets minimum standards for restructuring and certain insolvency matters … restructuring models in Europe. These options reveal different policy approaches to the regulation of restructuring and insolvency …. The analysis in this paper aims to illustrate the breadth of the policy choices and their consequences for restructuring …

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The state and your hard-earned money : a survey on moral perspectives in public finance

Mauro, Paolo - 2021

This note provides an overview of recent studies that have begun to investigate how differing moral perspectives shape attitudes toward tax and spending policies. Recent advances in evolutionary moral psychology and their application to survey-based economic analysis yield promising insights....

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Instruments of debtstruction : a new database of interwar debt

End, Nicolas; Marinkov, Marina; Miryugin, Fedor - 2019

We construct a new, comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries over the period 1913-46. The database contains data on amounts outstanding for some 3,800 individual debt instruments as well as associated qualitative information, including...

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Fiscal transparency and the performance of government financial assets

Seiferling, Mike; Tareq, Shamsuddin - 2015

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Now or later? : the political economy of public investment in democracies

Gupta, Sanjeev; Liu, Estelle; Mulas Granados, Carlos - 2015

This paper explores the impact of political and institutional variables on public investment. Working with a sample of 80 presidential and parliamentary democracies between 1975 and 2012, we find that the rate of growth of public investment is higher at the beginning of electoral cycles and...

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From containment to rationalization : increasing public expenditure efficiency in France

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Queyranne, Maximilien - 2016

Achieving France's medium-term fiscal targets will require significant expenditure efforts. This paper identifies areas where there is scope for increasing expenditure efficiency, with a view to achieving higher quality and more sustainable fiscal consolidation. The methodology is based on a...

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Fiscal consequences of terrorism

Cevik, Serhan; Ricco, John - 2015

This paper provides an empirical analysis of how the frequency and severity of terrorism affect government revenue and expenditure during the period 1970-2013 using a panel dataset on 153 countries. We find that terrorism has only a marginal negative effect on tax revenue performance, after...

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Trust what you hear : policy communication, expectations, and fiscal credibility

End, Nicolas; Hong, Gee Hee - 2022

How do policy communications on future f iscal targets af fect market expectations and beliefs about the future conduct of f iscal policy? In this paper, we develop indicators of f iscal credibility that quantify the degree to which policy announcements anchor expectations, based on the...

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Gender budgeting in G20 countries

Alonso-Albarran, Virginia; Curristine, Teresa; Preston, … - 2021

Achieving gender equality remains a significant challenge, that has only deepened with the on-set of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender budgeting (GB) can help promote gender equality by applying a gender perspective to fiscal policies and the budget process. This paper takes stock of GB practices in...

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Fiscal rules and fiscal councils : recent trends and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Davoodi, Hamid; Elger, Paul; Fotiou, Alexandra; … - 2022

Adoption of fiscal rules and fiscal councils continued to increase globally over the last decades based on two new global datasets. During the pandemic, fiscal frameworks were put to test. The widespread use of escape clauses was one of the novelties in this crisis, which helped provide policy...

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