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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties
Hammond, George W. - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
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O necessário, o possível e o impossível: Uma leitura do papel das políticas públicas diante dos limites à coordenação de grandes investimentos na periferia metropolitana Fluminense...
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
Over the last decades, the challenge of giving support to national economic growth process has become an undisputed issue. Since the second term of the Lula government, the theme of resumption of investment was imposed. In particular, the State of Rio de Janeiro benefited from a cycle of large...
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Ciclo e crise: Limites à capacidade de um crescimento econômico sustentado na periferia metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro diante do ciclo recente de grandes investimentos
Sobral, Bruno Leonardo Barth - 2015
The metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro has an urban structure "macrocefálica" in which the hinterland remains "the shadow of the metropolis" with other reduced centrality. However, in the recent period, there was the advent of large investment projects in its periphery, notably in the steel,...
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Disparidades do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) per capita no Brasil: Uma análise de convergência em diferentes escalas regionais (1970-2008)
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos - 2013
This paper investigates the evolution of the Brazilian per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - known as sigma-convergence … the scale reduction. This suggests the occurrence of a distinct convergence process of the per capita GPD between the two … North and Northeast and the convergence for the rest of the country. This result shows that there is not one scale that is …
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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...
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Ciclos políticos eleitorais e investimentos das administrações públicas no Brasil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in public investments in Brazil. This approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling whose greatest benefit is estimating the cyclical component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372358
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Verzehrt Deutschland seinen staatlichen Kapitalstock?
Grömling, Michael; Hüther, Michael; Jung, Markos - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 99 (2019) 1, pp. 25-31
Eine moderne öffentliche Infrastruktur ist die Grundlage einer leistungsfähigen Volkswirtschaft. Immer wieder ist in diesem Kontext von einer öffentlichen Investitionsschwäche die Rede. Mitunter wird angesichts negativer Nettoinvestitionen oder eines stagnierenden öffentlichen...
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Finanzierung von Zukunftsinvestitionen: Pragmatische Lösungen sind gefragt
Schnitzer, Monika; Truger, Achim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 1, pp. 11-14
Since the new German federal government has imposed tight fiscal policy restrictions on itself, a pragmatic approach is needed to finance the spending requirements of the transformation. The financing instruments mentioned in the coalition agreement appears to be suitable in principle for...
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Eine Investitionsagenda für Deutschland
Barišić, Manuela; Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 98 (2018) 3, pp. 179-185
Der Koalitionsvertrag von Union und SPD enthält erste Schritte in Richtung einer Ausweitung der öffentlichen Investitionen in Bildung und Betreuung, Wohnungsbau und digitale Infrastruktur. Zusätzliche Investitionen in diesen drei Kernbereichen sind aus wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher...
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Verzehrt Deutschland seinen staatlichen Kapitalstock? – Replik und Erwiderung
Dullien, Sebastian; Rietzler, Katja; Grömling, Michael; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 99 (2019) 4, pp. 286-294
Im Januarheft 2019 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Michael Grömling, Michael Hüther und Markos Jung dazu, wie der tatsächliche Umfang des öffentlichen Kapitalstocks gemessen werden sollte. Die Autoren vertreten dabei die Auffassung, dass der Fokus auf die Entwicklung...
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