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Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size … and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public …, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and …
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Paper relates to the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of Ireland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/ireland).<P>Rétablir la viabilité …
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side and avoid raising distortive taxes. Third, the fiscal framework should be improved by making fiscal rules less pro … enlarged mandate, while removing its power to veto the budget. This Working Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of …
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This paper explores the implications of public investment for macroeconomic performance within a simple two-period policymaking model. We show that under the balanced-budget rule, the contribution of public investment to future output plays a key role in determining its effects on macroeconomic...
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The fiscal stimulus packages that were put in place in the wake of the recent global financial crisis consisted of massive public investment spending. Moreover, substantial increases in public debt levels in the aftermath of the crisis have highlighted the importance of fiscal discipline and...
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On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...
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public expenditures – especially those responding to market failures – tend to be favorable to growth, most taxes are growth …
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This article deals with public debt dynamics in France. It also analyses several contemporary debates such as Ricardian equivalence, sustainability and budget balance decomposition. Public deficit is not necessarily the result of a Keynesian type of expansionary fiscal policy. It can also stem...
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Paper relates to the 2009 OECD Economic Survey of Israel (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/israel).<P>Les politiques monétaire et …
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We analyze the effects of large war episodes (world wars) on the macroeconomic dynamics of four advanced countries (France, Germany, the UK and the U.S.) using a structural small open economy model estimated with Bayesian techniques. Our dataset is taken from Piketty and Zucman (2014) and goes...
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