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14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2002
Temin, Peter - 2002
Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study three macroeconomic policy problems in depth. Possible topics include long-run economic growth, the macroeconomics of the transition to a modern capitalist society, federal government surpluses and deficits, Social Security, the distribution of earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433209
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Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Policy: An Economic Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
Es ist noch immer nicht endgültig geklärt, wie fiskalische Dezentralisierung die Höhe und Struktur der öffentlichen Ausgaben beeinflusst. Diese Dissertation analysiert daher zwei zusammenhängende Fragen. Erstens werden die Auswirkungen der fiskalischen Dezentralisierung auf die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476259
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Capital controls and external debt term structure
Auernheimer, Leonardo (contributor) - 2005
In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between capital controls and the choiceof the maturity structure of external debt in a general equilibrium setup, incorporatingexplicitly the role of international lenders. I look at specific types of capital controlswhich take the form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465028
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Central and Eastern Europe in transition
Hildebrandt, Antje - 2002
Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, marktunterstützende institutionelle Reformen im Transformationsprozess zu analysieren. Als Einstieg in die Thematik wird die Aufnahme mittel- und osteuropäischer Länder in die Europäische Union mit der zurückliegenden Süderweiterung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467024
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Privatization of Public Pensions in Germany
Fehr, Hans - 1998
This paper examines the distributional and efficiency effects of pension privatization in Germany. Starting from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475346
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581
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Outsourcing : a business model to improve municipal service delivery
Maloba, Ngako Daniel - 2008
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study report concerns service delivery issues at municipal level which have emerged as areas of critical concern as far as they affect consumers of municipal services, interest groups and government as a whole. Background to investigation. The need to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442069
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Governmental-Owner Power Imbalance and Privatization
Tihanyi, Laszlo (contributor) - 2010
Privatization is defined as the sale of state-owned assets by governmental agencies to private investors (e ….g., Megginson, Nash, Netter, and Poulsen, 2004; Villalonga, 2000). Research on privatization has focused on privatization techniques … (e.g., share issue privatization or voucher privatization), social welfare, governmental commitments to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464886
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The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?
Tietenberg, Tom - 2000
"One of the new institutional forms of coping with the problem of rationing access to the commons involves the use of tradable permits. Applications of this approach have spread to many different types of resources and many different countries. The most common applications involve the control of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468494
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An Analysis of the Privatization of Drinking Water Facilities in the United States
Bennear, Lori (contributor) - 2011
regarding privatization towards the proper management of water infrastructure. Future studies would benefit from analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475605