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local governments largely relied on increasing tax rates. The one commonality is in the field of regulation, when both …
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Fiscal distress of local governments and municipalities is a non-negligible component of the public finance turmoil after the Great Recession. In this paper we consider a dataset of Italian municipalities over the period 2000-2012 and look for the main budget determinants of local default....
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In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. As banks collapsed and the state scrambled to organize one of the largest transfers of wealth in history, manyincluding economists and financial expertswere shocked by the...
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The scientific reassessment of the economic role of the state after the crisis has renewed interest in Abba Lerner’s theory of functional finance (FF). A thorough discussion of this concept is helpful in reconsidering the debate on the nature of money and the origin of the business cycle and...
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a second serious recession in 2011 because of the sovereign debt crisis. The reaction of Italian governments was mild at … the beginning and more convinced since the start of the sovereign debt crisis in 2011. Adopted policies contributed to … Italian economy to reduce the level of public debt and to return to sustained economic growth, which has been very weak for …
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