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The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State

Swagel, Phillip - 2002

Data for the United States and countries in Western Europe indicate a negative correlation between the dependency ratio and both labor tax rates and the generosity of social transfers, after controlling for other factors that influence the size of the welfare state. This is despite the increased...

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Modeling optimal fiscal consolidation paths in a selection of European countries

Kanda, Daniel - 2011

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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries

Karpowicz, Izabela; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020

productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

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Retail Bank Interest Rate Pass-Through : Is Chile Atypical?

Rebucci, Alessandro - 2003

This paper investigates empirically the pass-through of money market interest rates to retail banking interest rates in Chile, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and five European countries. Overall, Chile''s pass-through does not appear atypical. Based on a standard...

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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency

Johnston, Robert B. - 1995

economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …

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A Noteon Debt Reduction and Echonomic Efficiency

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This note examines the efficiency gains that might result from market-based debt reduction and alternative uses of … government investment or consumption. Given considerable uncertainty about the efficiency returns of alternative uses of …

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Structural transformation and tax efficiency

Cevik, Serhan; Gottschalk, Jan; Hutton, Eric; Jaramillo … - 2019

developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting … the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on two alternative measures of VAT efficiency: (1) the VAT C-efficiency … 2004-2016. We find that a higher share of services in aggregate value-added reduces the VAT efficiency, and that this …

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The Cost of Government and the Misuse of Public Assets

Prakash, Tej - 2000

This paper deals with efficiency in the public sector. It argues that the habit of relating efficiency to public … could be used for several purposes including increasing public sector efficiency …

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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity

International Monetary Fund - 1998

or may not improve economic efficiency …

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Wholesale Payments and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity

Folkerts-Landau, D. F. I. - 1997

Properly designed wholesale payments system can make a significant contribution to enhancing market discipline in the financial sector, reducing the risk of systemic disturbance and permitting a less extensive safety net for financial institutions. The objective of these reforms has been to...

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