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This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...
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Strategic interjurisdictional behavior and the interaction over time of the mean and dispersion of average tax rates across states are analyzed in a vector autoregression model. Variance decompositions reveal that fiscal competition explains roughly one-third of the time variation of state and...
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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I use a detailed panel of data and a unique modeling specification to explore how public schoolteachers respond to the incentives embedded in North Carolina's retirement system. Like most public-sector retirement plans, North Carolina's teacher pension implicitly encourages teachers to continue...
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The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony of-fenders committed on or after …
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Virginia on reported crime rates. The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony offences … committed on or after January 1, 1995. To examine the impact of Virginia's change in legislation on reported crime rates from … Virginia. For other violent crimes such as rape and aggravated assault the evidence of a significant reduction in crime rates …
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We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative … market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions initially served to attract indentured servants from England needed … with slaves. Second, we argue that Virginia's suffrage was also the result of political bargaining influenced by shifting …
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-of-wedlock birth rates in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia to trends in states that did not implement family caps or …
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We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a framework that includes other variables such as migrant remittances to the region and a fiscal policy variable represented by the government budget deficit. Unlike earlier studies...
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This study analyses whether expected budget deficits have an impact on interest rate swap spreads in France, Germany and Italy. We use monthly deficit forecasts from financial market participants to take the forward-looking behaviour of financial markets into account. Results of a SUR estimation...
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