The issue of security and safety i s a fundamental condition for stable economic trends. Military expenditure can be a very powerful tool for a rapid economic growth. The paper examines the long-run relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in the selected Balkan countries,...

Die drei Länder gehörten lange Zeit zu den klassischen Zahlern im Länderfinanzausgleich. Mittlerweile hat sich ihre Finanzkraft und damit ihr Beitrag zum Länderfinanzausgleich drastisch verringert. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Der Autor stellt dar, dass die wesentliche Ursache in der...

This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...

Does the design of a tax matter for growth? Assembling a novel dataset for 30 OECD countriesover the 1970-2016 period, this paper examines whether the value added tax (VAT) may havedifferent effects on long-run growth depending on whether it is raised through the standard rateor through...

We evaluate the impact of fiscal reforms on growth and inequality in Cambodia using a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents (Peralta-Alva et al., 2018). Over the last two decades, Cambodia's consumption inequality and poverty have declined. However, income inequality is...

Despite the abundant literature on convergence across the Spanish regions, most of the empirical research has used cross-section regressions or data panel techniques with fixed effects, resulting in biased estimates. In addition, many of these studies do not explicitly account for the effect of...

In the present paper it will be shown that in country level economic growth has a positive impact on stock prices in the long run. This study refers annually to the Western Europe, Japan and the United States during the period 1999-2007. Therefore, any factor favoring economic growth should be...