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Accounting Challenges for Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs) in Developing Countries

Terkper, Seth E. - 2008

fiscal and financial accounting obligations. SARAs are legal entities, such as a service or a department, which are required … to prepare accrual records that may diverge from a treasury''s cash accounting records. Their records reflect revenues … generated; budget funds for generating the revenues; and material programs administered for other agencies. The accounting …

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Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2006

We analyze the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions, such as contract enforcement, rule of law, and property rights. In our model, firms differ in their preferences for institutional quality, which is determined endogenously in a political economy...

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Are labor market indicators telling the truth? : role of measurement error in the U.S. current population survey

Shibata, Ippei - 2019

Labor market indicators are critical for policymakers, but measurement error in labor force survey data is known to be substantial. In this paper, I quantify the implications of classification errors in the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), in which respondents misreport their true labor...

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Predicting recessions : a new approach for identifying leading indicators and forecast combinations

Baba, Chikako; Kıṣınbay, Turgut - 2011

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On the capacity to absorb public investment : how much is too much?

Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Kpodar, Kangni; Presbitero, Andrea; … - 2020

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often leads to inefficient outcomes. This paper rationalizes this outcome looking at the association between cost inflation and public investment in a large sample of road construction...

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When do we repair the roof? : insights from responses to fiscal crisis early warning signals

Honda, Jiro; Tapsoba, René; Issifou, Ismael - 2018

Should policymakers wait for fiscal crisis early warning signals before repairing the roof? We give an answer to this question by investigating the interlinkages between early warning signals for fiscal crisis, policy responses, and policy outcomes, using a broad panel of 119 countries. We find...

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A macroeconomic approach to the term premium

Kopp, Emanuel; Williams, Peter D. - 2018

In recent years, term premia have been very low and sometimes even negative. Now, with the United States economy growing above potential, inflationary pressures are on the rise. Term premia are very sensitive to the expected future path of growth, inflation, and monetary policy, and an inflation...

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Peeling away the layers : impacts of durable tariff elimination

Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Henn, Christian - 2018

We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, which generates non-linear impacts. First, complete tariff elimination results in a large additional trade gains over and above tariff reductions. Second, commitment to durable tariff elimination,...

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Analysis of the U.S. Business Cycle with a Vector-Markov-Switching Model

Kontolemis G., Zenon - 1999

This paper identifies turning points for the U.S. business cycle using different time series. The model, a multivariate Markov-Swiching model, assumes that each series is characterized by a mixture of two normal distributions (a high and low mean) with switching determined by a common Markov...

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The Role of Stock Markets in Current Account Dynamics : Evidence From the United States

Mercereau, Benoît - 2003

This paper tests a model of the role of stock markets in current account dynamics, developed in a companion paper. With U.S. data, the model performs better than the same model without stock markets. An insight given by the model is that the current account might help predict future stock market...

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