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Does the Swiss debt brake induce sound federal finances? : a synthetic control analysis
Pfeil, Christian F.; Feld, Lars P. - 2016
improved the budget balance by about 3.6 percentage points on average in a post-intervention period covering five years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521945
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Fiscal Governance and Electoral Accountability : Evidence from Late Budgets
Lassen, David Dreyer - 2010
process at election day. We find that legislatures face significant negative electoral consequences of not finishing a budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140517
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Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes - Big Steps to a Smaller State
Booth, Philip - 2011
The government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review was anything but comprehensive. The cuts to government spending were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120040
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Turning Federalism Right-Side Up
Somin, Ilya - 2012
Michael Greve's The Upside-Down Constitution is one of the most important works on constitutional federalism in years. It is the best exposition to date of the idea that the American Constitution establishes a federal system primarily devoted to promoting competition between state governments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097052
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British Influence on Commonwealth Budget Systems : The Case of the United Republic of Tanzania
Lienert, Ian - 2007
Several features of Tanzania's budget system find their roots in the arrangements inherited from the United Kingdom …. These include a legal framework that emphasizes accountability' a cabinet of ministers with strong budget decision …-making powers' a parliament with very limited budget powers' and a similar external audit organization. In both countries, budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777193
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A Comparison between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa
Lienert, Ian - 2006
used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783023
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Faux Federalism
Hurst, Amanda - 2021
This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing of the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy for beneficiaries of federal-state cooperative spending programs. Originally, the Court applied a presumption, via § 1983's straightforward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231453
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The quality of public finances
Thöne, Michael - 2022
The concept of the "quality of public finances" (QPF) covers many qualitative and structural issues of fiscal policy. This chapter traces the origins of the concept of QPF to the Lisbon Strategy and the subsequent EPC Working Group on "Quality of Public Finances" (2004‐2007). At its core, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013188102
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Controlling Public Spending in Iceland
Suppanz, Hannes - 2003
reining it in. Budget consolidation efforts and public-sector reforms temporarily reversed the upward trend in the government … would seem to relate to the budget process and the lack of a medium-term expenditure policy, along with insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445869
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Does the Swiss debt brake induce sound federal finances? : a synthetic control analysis
Pfeil, Christian F.; Feld, Lars P. - 2018
improved the budget balance by about 3.6 percentage points on average in a post-intervention period covering five years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878540