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Preferences for reforms : endowments vs. beliefs

Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Papageorgiou, Chris; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

cross-country survey on people's opinions on employment protection legislation-an area where reform has proven to be … personal pay-offs. A randomized information treatment confirms that beliefs explain views about reform, but beliefs can change …

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Judicial system reform in Italy : a key to growth

Esposito, Gianluca; Lanau, Sergi; Pompe, Sebastiaan - 2014

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How to gain the most from structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs

Andritzky, Jochen; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa; Wang, Ke - 2021

Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...

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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of structural reforms in Ukraine

Ari, Anil; Pula, Gábor - 2021

a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …

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The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited : Evidence for Developing Countries

Coady, David P. - 2015

designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude … of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and … subsidy reform for countries where the data necessary for such an analysis is not available …

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China's rising IQ (innovation quotient) and growth : firm-level evidence

Fang, Jing; He, Hui; Li, Nan - 2016

This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm...

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Reforming energy policy in India : assessing the options

Parry, Ian W. H.; Mylonas, Victor; Vernon, Nate - 2017

Spreadsheet models are used to assess the environmental, fiscal, economic, and incidence effects of a wide range of options for reducing fossil fuel use in India. Among the most effective options is ramping up the existing coal tax. Annually increasing the tax by INR 150 (USD 2.25) per ton of...

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Government wage bill management and civil service reform in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

Mitchell, Wayne; James, Ronald; Wickham, Ann Marie - 2019

In this study, we assess the size of the government wage bill and employment in the member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and their implications for fiscal sustainability and the adequacy of public service delivery. Over the period 2005 to 2015 their wage bill (as a percentage...

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Distributional implications of labor market reforms : learning from Spain's experience

Stepanyan, Ara; Salas, Jorge - 2020

Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create...

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Identifying service market reform priorities in Italy

Belhocine, Nazim; Garcia-Macia, Daniel - 2020

Italy's labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European countries, especially in strongly regulated sectors. A model of monopolistic competition is used to identify which service sectors would benefit more from removing entry and/or...

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