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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963260
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Fiscal Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
Andersen, Torben M. - 2009
The financial crisis raises demands for fiscal policy interventions. While a fall in aggregate demand is an important consequence of the crisis, it also reflects more underlying structural problems and changes. Hence, appropriate policy designs have to take account of the nature of the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159234
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What Role for Public Finance in International Climate Change Mitigation
Doornbosch, Richard - 2008
The level of investment required to finance carbon mitigation projects to stabilize carbon emissions at current levels is estimated to be in the order of USD 200-210 billion annually (UNFCCC 2007). The IEA estimate about around USD 150 billion needs to be invested annually between 2010 and 2050...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722762
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Government Role and the Efficiency of Policy Instruments
Tanzi, Vito - 2006
Comparisons about the role of the government in an economy are usually made by reference to the share of tax revenue or of public expenditure in gross domestic product. However, governments often use other tools for pursuing their objectives. The paper discusses these other tools, shows the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781864
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Budgetary Impact of Accelerating COVID-19 Vaccination
Contreras, Carlos; Angulo, Julio - 2021
This paper analyses the extent to which additional extraordinary public spending to accelerate vaccination might have been optimal in terms of minimising the public deficit. We use a budget model whose key variable is the present value of cumulative net government revenues over a period of time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222737
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Energy Security, Green Job Creation, and Youth Innovation
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013
Global energy demand is likely to increase by 45 percent by 2030. Climate change will threaten existing employment and necessitate new green jobs. Funding has gone towards such renewable energy technologies as wind and solar; such fuel economy options as second-generation hybrids, plug-in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753535
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The climate change challenge and fiscal instruments and policies in the EU
Avgousti, Aris; Caprioli, Francesco; Caracciolo, Giacomo; … - 2023
Fiscal policy plays a prominent role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. An optimal combination of revenue policies, in particular taxes, and expenditure policies, such as subsidies and investment, is essential in order to achieve greenhouse gas emissions targets. This paper analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248742
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Terrorism Risk in a Post-9/11 Economy : The Convergence of Insurance, Capital Markets, and Government Action
Rhee, Robert J. - 2015
September 11 changed the American economy and the global insurance market. The insurance industry no longer covers … terrorism risk for "free." The traditional insurance mechanism alone cannot spread the risk of repeated catastrophic losses …. Beyond the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 lingers the questions of a longterm solution and government's role therein …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058715
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Do ‘Green Growth’ and Technological Innovation matter to Infrastructure Investment? Global Evidence
Trinh, Hai Hong; Squires, Graham; McCord, Michael; Lo, … - 2022
The notion of green growth has emerged as an international policy discourse and response to climate change and ecological breakdown, designed to improve the demand-based and production-based emissions through a nation’s investments in its technological innovations and environmental-related...
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Does Austerity Cause Polarization?
Huebscher, Evelyne - 2020
Most party systems have seen a considerable rise in polarization during the past decades. We show that fiscal policies have contributed to this development. Our macro-level analysis of 166 elections since 1980 finds that austerity increases both electoral abstention and votes for non-mainstream...
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