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In attesa del federalismo compiuto: LEA, spesa sanitaria e risorse finanziarie a livello regionale
Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine; Madia, Marianna - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2004
L'Italia sta affrontando la riforma federalista della sanità in maniera inadeguata. Il trasferimento delle responsabilità economico-finanziarie dallo Stato alle Regioni sta avvenendo all'interno di una cornice normativa incompleta e su più punti internamente incoerente. Le difficoltà...
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Spesa sanitaria, demografia, governance istituzionale - Tra trend storici e proiezioni a lungo termine
Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2006
Nel corso dell'ultimo quindicennio, la spesa sanitaria pubblica ha subito una compressione e una...
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Federalismo e riparto del Fsn-2011: Much Ado About Nothing?
Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2011
Questo Working Paper risponde a due quesiti: 1) Quale distribuzione di risorse tra Regioni emergerebbe se i 106,4 miliardi di Euro del Fsn-2011 fossero ripartiti in maniera tale da riconoscere, su tutto il territorio nazionale, i medesimi rapporti di fabbisogno pro-capite tra fasce di età che...
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Funding Pensions in Scotland: Would Independence Matter?
Bell, David; Comerford, David; Eiser, David - In: National Institute Economic Review 227 (2014) 1, pp. 21-21
Economic issues will be key determinants of the outcome of the Scottish referendum on independence. Pensions are a key element of the economic case for or against independence. The costs of funding pensions in an independent Scotland would be influenced by mortality risks, the costs of borrowing...
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Fiscal Federalism in Russia: Soft Budget Constraints of Regional Governments
Sinelnikov, Sergey; Kadochnikov, Pavel; Trunin, Ilya; … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2006
The study has reviewed the experience of foreign countries in the sphere of implementation of respective measures designed to prevent the emergence of soft budget constraints imposed on subnational authorities in a situation of fiscal decentralization. Also, a number of theoretic simulation...
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Government Spending Shocks and the Multiplier: New Evidence from the U.S. Based on Natural Disasters
Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 2012
, the expenditure associated with military build-ups affects primarily the defense sector so that the resulting multiplier … powerful instrument for identifying government spending shocks. Furthermore, we show that the multiplier pertaining to non …-defense government spending is higher than the defense-spending multiplier estimated in the literature using military build-ups. …
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Estimated Impact of Fiscal Consolidation on GDP Growth in the Slovak Republic
Pécsyová, Monika - In: Politická ekonomie 2014 (2014) 2, pp. 174-193
The Slovak economy is experiencing another significant phase of fiscal consolidation in its history. Unlike previous episodes of major consolidation in our history, our economy cannot "rely" on a soft cushion in the form of favourable global economic situation, integration and launch of new...
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Government Cash Management : Good Practice & Capacity-Building Framework
Mu, Yibin - 2006
In many developing countries, government cash management is misperceived as synonymous to budget execution, accounting control, or debt management, instead of as a practice that aims to cost-effectively manage government cash positions, including their risks. They often neglect the significant...
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Statistical, Identifiable and Iconic Victims and Perpetrators
Loewenstein, George - 2005
We draw out implications of the identifiable victim effect - the greater sympathy shown toward identifiable than statistical victims - for public finance. We first review research showing (1) that people respond more strongly to identifiable than statistical victims even when identification...
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Systemic Weaknesses of Budget Management in Anglophone Africa
Lienert, Ian - 2006
This paper examines the merits of the British budget management system that was inherited in Anglophone African countries and which has changed substantially in the United Kingdom since the 1960s. It considers whether the disappointing budgetary performance in Africa is due to weaknesses in the...
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