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Energy Access in Rio 20
Behrens, Arno; Cozzi, Laura; Pachauri, Shonali; Tanaka, … - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2012) June
While the earth summit Rio+20 is taking place, top scholars from IEA, KTH, CEPS, IIASA and EBRD discuss the main issues concerning Energy poverty which should be kept at the centre of the political and scientific debate.
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Fiscal Institutions at the Cantonal Level in Switzerland
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 149 (2013) II, pp. 139-166
In this paper, institutions are described which are designed to reach sustainability of public finances in the Swiss …
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Was Spanish fiscal policy sustainable?
Haskamp, Ulrich - In: Empirica 41 (2014) 2, pp. 273-286
policy on debt was found to be decreasing over time. However, it was still significantly positive, showing sustainability …
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Euro Crises and Euro Scams: Trade not Debt and Deficits Tell the Tale
Weeks, John - In: Ensayos Económicos 1 (2013) 69, pp. 7-36
The euro crisis was typically presented as excessive fiscal deficits leading to the accumulation of unsustainable public debts. This diagnosis applied most notably in Greece and Italy, but also Portugal and Spain. Implicit in much of the analysis, and occasionally explicit, was the suggestion...
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Public Debt and Functional Finance in an OLG Model with Imperfect Competition
Skott, Peter; Ryoo, Soon - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2012
This paper examines the role of fiscal policy in the long run. We show that (i) dynamic inefficiency may be empirically relevant in a modified Diamond OLG model with imperfect competition, (ii) fiscal policy may be needed to avoid inefficiency (if investment adjusts passively to saving) and...
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Sustainability of Public Debt in Germany – Historical Considerations and Time Series Evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 3, pp. 291-335
anecdotal historical analysis, we conduct formal tests on fiscal sustainability, including tests on stationarity and … rejection of the hypothesis of fiscal sustainability for the period from 1950 to 2010.This evidence leads to the conclusion that … fiscal consolidation actually takes place – for the sake of public debt sustainability. …
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Surreptitious structure of the Turkish financial crisis 2000-2001
Ozkaya, Ata - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 359-380
In this paper, we develop a comprehensive framework to obtain a 'broad definition' of overall public debt stock accumulation in Turkey. To do this first, we identify 'invisible balance' of public sector incurred from politically backed (informal) off-budget debt-creating transactions among...
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Subnational-level Fiscal Health: Stability and Sustainability Implications for Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal
Das, Nimai - eSocialSciences - 2013
of general category states. The study reviews this projection and assesses their financial stability and sustainability …
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Stochastic debt sustainability indicators
Lukkezen, Jasper; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - In: Revue de l'OFCE N° 127 (2013) 1, pp. 97-121
This paper proposes indicators to assess government debt sustainability in the medium and long term. We follow the … clearly identifies countries that have sustainability concerns: Italy, Spain, Portugal and Iceland, from those that do not: US …
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An assessment of debt sustainability in scenario of Pakistan’s debt burden
Ejaz, Khurram; Javid, Attiya Yasmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The objective of the study is to assess and analyze sustainability of overall public debt and sustainability of … sustainability through interest rate and growth rate differential and level of primary budget balance while external debt … sustainability is assessed through interest rate on debt and growth rate of exports differential and current account balance. The …
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