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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
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Political budget cycles and social security budget increases in the Republic of Ireland, 1923-2005
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines social security increases in Ireland as a case study of the existence of political budget cycles in … European countries. Ireland is an appropriate country to examine, first because it has a system of proportional representation … Ireland in relation to social security expenditure. It draws a number of conclusions as to the existence and incidence of …
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The impact of illegal immigration on U.S. economy
Maha, Sorin-Stefan; Maha, Liviu-George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper explores the impact of the illegal immigration on the U.S. economy in a context where the immigration phenomenon in this country is one of scale, taking into account its effects on the labor market, on consumption, budget equilibrium and American business. Nation founded by...
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Cause and cure of the crisis
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...
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Public Financial Management in Indonesia : Review of Islamic Public Finance
Jaelani, Aan - 2017
Public financial management by the government is very important in view of the level of welfare in Indonesia is still low, as there are still much poverty with the level of fulfillment of the needs of low, corruption that occurs in every area of government, income distribution is uneven, low...
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The Fed-Induced Political Business Cycle
Funashima, Yoshito - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Given that Nordhaus' political business cycle theory is relevant at election cycle frequency and that its validity can change over time, we consider wavelet analysis especially suited to test the theory. For the postwar U.S. economy, we exploit wavelet methods to demonstrate whether there...
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Public Choice: an Overview
Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Public Choice begins with the observation that in politics, as in economics, individuals and institutions compete for scarce resources and that, therefore, the same methods of analyses used by economists to explain the behaviour of consumers and producers might also serve well to explain the...
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Decentralisation and Political Business Cycle: Fund Utilization of the MP-LADS in India
Pal, Rupayan; Das, Aparajita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MP-LADS) came in effect in 1993, closely followed by the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution, along with the wave of democratic decentralisation process in India. The MP-LADS allows for a fixed amount, non-lapsable Rs. 2 crores per year for...
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Decentralisation and Political Business Cycle: Fund Utilization of the MP-LADS in India
Pal, Rupayan; Das, Aparajita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MP-LADS) came in effect in 1993, closely followed by the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution, along with the wave of democratic decentralisation process in India. The MP-LADS allows for a fixed amount, non-lapsable Rs. 2 crores per year for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108035
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Are Elections Debt Brakes? Evidence from French Municipalities
Caseette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We show that voters are fiscal conservatives, although in the long run only: while the average (over the mandate) level of debt has a negative impact on the probability of reelection, pre-election debt accumulation by incumbents increases their probability of reelection. As the negative impact...
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