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Ländliche Räume in NRW - Räume mit Zukunftsperspektiven. Schwerpunktthema "Daseinsvorsorge": Teil-Positionspapier 4

Arens, Stephanie; Bradtke, Alexandra; Claßen, Thomas; … - 2022

Bereichen "Feuerwehr und Brandschutz" sowie "Gesundheit und Pflege" in den ländlichen Räumen Nordrhein-Westfalens. Beide … Gemeinden bei Problemen der Daseinsvorsorge in den Bereichen "Feuerwehr und Brandschutz" sowie "Gesundheit und Pflege …

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Geography or skills: What explains Fed watchers’ forecast accuracy of US monetary policy?

Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

The paper shows that there is a substantial degree of heterogeneity in forecast accuracy among Fed watchers. Based on a … novel database for 268 professional forecasters since 1999, the average forecast error of FOMC decisions varies 5 to 10 … financial market volatility after FOMC meetings. Finally, Fed communication may exert an influence on forecast accuracy. …

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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007

Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...

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Public expenditure and international specialisation

Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - 2001

It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...

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Demanda por gasto público no Brasil no período pós-redemocratização: Testes da lei de Wagner e da hipótese de mill de ilusão fiscal

da Silva, Alexandre Manoe Angelo; Siqueira, Rozane Bezerra - 2013

This paper examines whether fiscal illusion can help to explain the behavior of federal government expenditures in Brazil during period 1990-2011. The analyses is based on a median voter model that admits that the degree of tax visibility may affect the individual's perception of his tax burden...

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Reforming public expenditure in industrialised countries: are there trade-offs?

Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2005

In this paper, we show that, contrary to common beliefs, over the past two decades several countries were able to reduce public spending by remarkable amounts. These countries did not seem to have suffered from these large reductions either in a macroeconomic sense, or in terms of lower values...

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Expenditure reform in industrialised countries: a case study approach

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2006

This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...

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Adolph Wagner und sein "Gesetz": einige späte Anmerkungen

Dluhosch, Barbara; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2008

Starting from the secular fact of an increasing government´s share, a retrospective on Adolph Wagner´s writings seems worthwhile. A leading German economist of the Bismarck era, he first formulated the famous 'law of increasing state activity' for industrializing nations. After analyzing his...

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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913

Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009

In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure programs. Starting from the economic...

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government

Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

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