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The Political Setting of Social Security Contributions in Europe in the Business Cycle
Pusch, Toralf; Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2011
Social security revenues are influenced by business cycle movements. In order to support the working of automatic stabilizers it would be necessary to calculate social insurance contribution rates independently from the state of the business cycle. This paper investigates whether European...
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Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia
Carreri, Maria; Martinez, Luis R. - 2021
variation across Colombian municipalities in exposure to a subnational fiscal rule that set a cap on operating expenses as a …
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Costa Rica : restoring fiscal sustainability and setting the basis for a more growthfriendly and inclusive fiscal policy
Araújo, Sónia; Guichard, Stéphanie - 2018
Consecutive years of primary deficits have led to mounting public debt of almost 50% of GDP, one of the fastest increases in Latin America over the last decade. Government attempts to restore fiscal health have been undermined by a gridlocked Congress. While only minor reforms have been enacted...
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How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2017
Using a new data set from 1890 to 2000, we estimate how the adoption of proportional representation affects policies in Swiss cantons. We show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (e.g. education and welfare bene fits) but decrease spending on targetable goods (e.g. roads...
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Fiscal income inequalities and efficiency : evidence from Brazilian municipalities : ERSA 2012 Congress, from 21 to 25 August, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2012
Distribution of fiscal income among municipalities - which are constitutionally federal official entities in Brazil … municipalities concentrate resources and quality public services whereas neighboring municipalities harbor low-income workers who … income inequalities by municipalities using exploratory spatial analysis and detailed fiscal information for 5212 …
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The role of externalities in fiscal efficiency
Silva, Thiago Christiano; Guerra, Solange Maria; … - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 62 (2022) 6, pp. 2827-2864
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Political budget cycles and reelection prospects in Greece's municipalities
Chortareas, Georgios E.; Logothetis, Vasileios; … - In: European journal of political economy 43 (2016), pp. 1-13
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Diagnosing fiscal distress : regional evidence from Polish municipalities
Zioło, Magdalena - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 6 (2015) 2, pp. 14-33
The paper deals with the problem of municipalities’ fiscal distress and its diagnosis. The study examines the key … financial indicators of Polish municipalities located in the West Pomeranian Region and uses them to build an aggregate … measurement to identify the level of these municipalities’ fiscal distress. The analysis is based on taxonomy methods in order to …
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Fiscal rules, local fiscal policies and households' mobility
Fontana-Casellini, Laura - 2022
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What drives public health care expenditure growth? : evidence from Swiss cantons, 1970 - 2012
Brändle, Thomas; Colombier, Carsten - 2015
A better understanding of the determinants of public health care expenditures is key to designing effective health policies. We integrate supply and demand-side determinants, factors from political economy and health policy reforms into an empirical analysis of the highly decentralized Swiss...
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