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Foreign Direct Investment in Romania - Influence on Transformation of the Economic System and the EC-Integration

Müller, Waldemar - 2005

policy of the European Union on the transformation of systems and the integration of Romania will be demonstrated. From a … comprehensive description of the process of the transformation and integration of Romania, conclusions as to how these processes can … be accelerated will then be drawn for political decision-makers from the European Union and Romania. To analyse the …

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Institutional change in Romania 1866 - 2005 : an institutional economics approach to the role of path dependency for the transformation and the integration into the European Union

ComÅa, Maria-Laura - 2006

Rumänien ist seit 2007 Mitglied der Europäischen Union. 2004 hat die EU-Kommission die rumänische Volkswirtschaft als funktionierende Marktwirtschaft eingestuft. Trotzdem existieren hohe wirtschaftliche Unterschiede zwischen Rumänien und den restlichen EU-Staaten. Das Land ist relativ groß...

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Relationship of Development and Fiscal Indicators with Agricultural Producer Support in the OECD Economies

Siudek, Tomasz; Zawojska, Aldona - 2011

The paper seeks to quantify the effects of macro development and fiscal indicators on the agriculturalproducer support in the OECD countries during the period 1986-2009. The study is complementaryto the body of microeconomic research that highlights the importance of support toagriculture...

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Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition: Selected papers on competition, efficiency and cooperation in public economics

Chander, Parkash (contributor); Drèze, Jacques (contributor) - 2006

The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II....

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Interjurisdictional Competition and Public-Sector Modernisation - Theory and Empirics

Daniel Thomas Becker - 2008

This dissertation analysis the consequences of interjurisdictional competition for a mobile tax base for the efficiency of the public sector and the growth potential of a jurisdiction.

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The GLTD:GCA ratio: A tool for public financial management

Russell, Eric - 2008

This paper investigates the ratio of general long-term debt to general capital assets’ influence on municipal credit ratings – signals of risk to investors – and coupon rates. Given current uncertainty levels in credit markets, it is paramount that low risk be signaled to sell debt and...

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Local Property and State Income Taxes: The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1997

addresses two long-standing positive questions in public finance: 1) Why is the property tax, despite widespread popular complaints against its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments; and 2) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments (states)...

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Three Essays in Public Finance and Labor Economics.

Lovenheim, Michael Frederick - 2007

The first paper of this dissertation utilizes unique data on teachers' union election certifications in Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota to analyze the effect of teachers' unions on education production. I find teachers' unions have no impact on teacher pay, class sizes, or per-student expenditures,...

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The equity premium puzzle and its implications for public infrastructure financing

Mr James Green - 2010

This thesis examines the financing and construction arrangements of the recently designed Airport Link project in Brisbane, Australia. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the equity risk premium, combined with the public nature of toll roads, makes private financing of this kind of...

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State Fiscal Institutions: An Evolution

Rodriguez Tejedo, Maria Isabel - 2007

This dissertation considers two aspects of the study of fiscal institutions: the importance of understanding their evolution and the need for analyzing their specific form. Chapter 1 addresses the tension between commitment and flexibility in the design of institutions and stresses the...

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