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The Political Budget Cycle is Where You Can't See It: Transparency and Fiscal Manipulation

Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2005

We investigate the effects of fiscal transparency and political polarization on the prevalence of electoral cycles in fiscal balance. The recent political economy literature on electoral cycles identifies such cycles mainly in weak and recent democracies. In contrast, we show, conditioning on a...

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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa

Benner, Maximilian - 2012

presents case studies from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. …

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Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other … conditions directly linked to the resource sector with the general conflict-fueling conditions diagnosed in Algeria. It takes … but also enhances our understanding of the eruption of violence in Algeria. …

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Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now …-building efforts in Algeria and identify ways of improving these measures. The resources, which are mainly controlled by the central …-building will only lead to sustainable results when embedded in full-fledged reforms of Algeria's entire economic and political …

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Fiskalische Transparenz und ökonomische Entwicklung: Der Fall Bosnien-Herzegowina

Teig, Michael - 2006

Fiskalische Transparenz ist die Offenheit bezüglich der Planung, Formulierung und Implementierung von Finanzpolitik. Fiskalische Transparenz ist nicht nur ein wichtiges Konzept der gegenwärtigen entwicklungspolitischen Diskussion, sondern gleichzeitig ist auch in Ländern der Europäischen...

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Improving the fragile states' budget transparency: Lessons from Afghanistan

Bizhan, Nematullah - 2016

What drives improvements in the budget transparency of fragile states? By investigating the dynamics of budget transparency in post 9/11 Afghanistan, this paper demonstrates that factors such as budget reforms, aid conditionality, legislature and civil society (and media) demands for information...

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The Development of Tax Transparency in OECD Countries

Thi, Hoang Ha Nguyen; Nikolka, Till - In: CESifo DICE Report 14 (2016) 4, pp. 85-89

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Fiscal Transparency and Fiscal Policy Outcomes in OECD Countries

Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2003

It is widely believed and often argued that fiscal, or budgetary, transparency has large, positive effects on fiscal performance. However, the evidence linking transparency and fiscal policy outcomes is far from compelling. We present a career-concerns model with political parties to analyze the...

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The Causes of Fiscal Transparency: Evidence from the American States

Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David; Rose, Shanna - 2006

We use unique panel data on the evolution of transparent budget procedures in the American states over the past three decades to explore the political and economic determinants of fiscal transparency. Our case studies and quantitative analysis suggest that both politics and fiscal policy...

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Openess and transparency of fiscal reporting in Poland: Assessment and recommendation

Jastrzębska, Maria - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 14 (2018) 3, pp. 1-7

The aim of the paper is to answer the question of whether fiscal reporting (more precisely, financial reporting of public finance sector entities (PFSE)) earnestly expressed the results of activities (information included is reliable, understandable and complete), and provide suggestions on how...

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