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Consumer Response to Monetary Subsidies : A Structural Demand Analysis of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Oberg, Rudolf-Harri; Musalem, Andres - 2021

consumers would respond to subsidy designs with different spending restrictions. To simulate consumer behavior under different …) benefits relative to alternative subsidy designs. Our findings indicate that SNAP benefits can be effective in driving food … welfare implications associated with alternative subsidy designs, we find that, on average, consumers would be willing to …

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Subsidy Reforms and Poverty Alleviation

Chander, Parkash - 2021

This paper presents a general framework for characterizing the optimal pattern of subsidies for poverty alleviation under budgetary constraints and suggests possible reforms for the existing pattern of subsidies. The government may subsidize or tax goods in order to meet its objectives. The...

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EU-Investitionsförderung für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen in Südeuropa: empfehlenswert?

Forstner, Bernhard; Koester, Ulrich - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 9, pp. 666-670

Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen in den südeuropäischen EU-Ländern haben oft nur begrenzten Zugang zu Krediten. Der Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments, Martin Schulz, möchte diese Unternehmen fördern, um die Arbeitslosigkeit zu verringern. Auch der neue Präsident der EUKommission,...

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Study on Quality of Public Finances in Support of Growth in the Mediterranean Partner Countries of the EU

Coutinho, Leonor - 2010

Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...

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Sovereign Credit Risk in the Euro Zone

Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2012

What is the current state of sovereign credit risk across Euro zone? Does the recent fiscal crisis extend to other (non Euro zone) countries? Is Greece the center of the problem? How did the current fiscal crisis in the Euro area start? Who is behind it? Why can it evolve? How can it be...

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Economic Stability and Economic Governance in the Euro Area : What the European Crisis Can Teach on the Limits of Economic Integration

Lupo-Pasini, Federico - 2013

The recent European economic crisis has dramatically exposed the failures of the various institutional mechanisms in place to maintain economic stability in Europe, and has unveiled the difficulty in achieving international coordination on fiscal and financial stability policies. Drawing on the...

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Reforming the Air Passenger Duty as an Environmental Tax

Truby, Jon M. - 2014

In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...

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Public policy responses to the COVID-19 epidemic : the case of family policy in the Czech Republic

Jahoda, Robert; Malý, Ivan; Špaček, David - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 1-11

Families with dependent children are among the social groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the development of measures applied by the Czech national government for compensating families with children during the COVID-19 crisis. It summarizes the aims of the measures...

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Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain : The Impact of Structural Reform on Fiscal of Outcomes in EMU

van den Noord, Paul - 2006

The 2005 reform of the EU Stability and Growth Pact has provided leeway for governments to let their fiscal deficit temporarily breach the 3% rule to finance the immediate budgetary cost of structural reform, such as compensation schemes to offset redistributive effects. Against this backdrop,...

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Discretionary Fiscal Policy and Elections : The Experience of the Early Years of EMU

Buti, Marco - 2003

An early criticism of the Stability and Growth Pact has pointed to its asymmetric nature and the weak mechanisms to prevent politically-motivated fiscal policies: its constraints would bite in downswings but not in upswings, especially if in the latter the electoral cycle increases the...

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