A tanulmány áttekinti a Magyarországon az elmúlt években magas szinten beragadt államháztartási hiány okait és makrogazdasági hatásait, majd röviden vázolja a lehetséges megoldási irányokat. Tömör elméleti kitekintés után elemezi a fiskális politika fellazulásának...

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...

This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). Consistent with the model, results from administrative data show that teachers have causal...

Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...

The paper discusses the problems of competitiveness of the public sector of the economy. The article shows that a possible solution to this problem is the computerization of the public sector, for example, active introduction of the e-government.

This paper proposes a model to study the main factors that influence the preferences of different population groups between presidential and parliamentary systems. Our theory suggests that the parliamentary regime leads to a type of fiscal decentralization in the form of more transfers to...

Il saggio approfondisce le problematiche connesse alle forme associative tra Comuni, nel caso italiano, a partire dall’analisi del caso Veneto nella prospettiva europea. Tali forme di aggregazione possono essere efficacemente definite come esempi di reti intercomunali: un concetto che consente...

The present article analyses some transformations suffered by the financial systems in the framework of new economic environment realities, including the financial and economic crisis, and also a number of indicators such as dynamics of banks’ loans balances, the interest rate on loans and...

Cultural theory has attracted considerable interest in the study of risk regulation. There has, however, been a lack of a systematic interest in its claims and in methodological issues. In this paper, we present seven claims that are either directly drawn from central claims of cultural theory...

The introduction of index-based derivatives is one of the most important developments in post-war financial markets; today these contracts are amongst the most commonly traded financial instruments. Yet, no sociological accounts based on empirical material have focused on the creation of...