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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109090
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Comparative analysis of monetary and fiscal Policy: a case study of Pakistan
Jawaid, Syed Tehseen; Arif, Imtiaz; Naeemullah, Syed … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study investigates the comparative effect of fiscal and monetary policy on economic growth in Pakistan using annual time series data from 1981 to 2009. The cointegration result suggests that both monetary and fiscal policy have significant and positive effect on economic growth. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149430
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Políticas fiscales como herramienta para la prevención de sobrepeso y obesidad
Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Rubalcava-Peñafiel, Luis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
One of three adults in Mexico is obese, therefore, policies to reduce overweight and obesity prevalence in the country were designed. The use of fiscal policy was proposed as a way to discourage the consumption of soft drinks and raise funds to pay health services used by obese patients. The aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170145
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Estimating the Federal Direct Tax Buoyancy for Pakistan in Post-1973 Era
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
shrinking as proportion of GDP and the proportion of direct tax increasing in proportion to total taxes gradually. The study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110075
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The Impact of Taxes on Employment and Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries
Seward, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
factors behind the rise of labor costs, but the most significant reason is from higher taxes being placed on labor. Increasing … labor taxes have two primary effects on employment and growth. First, the demand for labor is decreased as the cost rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029688
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Taxes and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : A Dynamic Panel Approach
NANTOB, N'Yilimon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper looks at the effects of taxes increase on economic growth of 47 developing countries. In developing … as political and policy controversy, no simple answer exists concerning the relationship of taxes on economic growth in … developing countries. The research takes an empirical approach to analyze the effects of four types of taxes namely taxes revenue …
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Budget Deficits and Economic Growth
Belton, Willie; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
The present paper examines the impact that budget deficits exercise on economic growth in the United States. Using a simple growth model that includes a variety of public policy variables, we provide Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates that indicate growth in the United States over time. The...
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Electoral Budget Cycles: The case of the Argentine Provinces
Medina, Leandro; Lema, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper presents subnational evidence of electoraly-motivated changes in the level of public expenditures, budgetary deficits and composition of public expenditures in Argentina. The empirical study is made using a dynamic panel data analysis (GMM) for 22 provinces during period 1985-2001. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560096
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La crisis económica actual, una visión desde la economía política
Sergio, Reuben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025710
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An Anarchist's reflection on the political economy of everyday life
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
James Scott has written a detailed ethnography on the lives of the peoples of upland Southeast Asia who choose to escape oppressive government by living at the edge of their civilization. To the political economist the fascinating story told by Scott provides useful narratives in need of...
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