The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...

This article discusses the importance of ideology, institutions, politics, and economic knowledge for forecasting economic policies and their impact on macroeconomic developments. Following a general discussion of those factors, the article illustrates their forecasting usefulness by drawing on...

The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...

Nell’ultimo ventennio, le politiche previdenziali nel nostro Paese hanno mirato a: stabilizzare la spesa in rapporto al Pil; eliminare le sperequazioni; aumentare l’età pensionabile; sviluppare la previdenza privata a capitalizzazione. Riguardo al primo obiettivo, già le riforme del 1992 e...

This work proposes to remove the current impact of the financial crisis in Romania, the current public debt, and a perspective of its next years. Also the structure of the public debt is analyzed on types of instruments, i.e state loans, bonds, the bonds, eurobonds. Their is even risks detailed...

The paper studies a federal system where (a) a region provides non-contractible inputs into the social benefits from a public policy project with spillovers to other regions, and (b) where political bargaining between different levels of government may ensure efficient decision making ex post....

The "issue" of health has always been, both in social reality and in academia and research, a sensitive topic considering the relationship each individual has with his own health and the health care system as a public policy. At public opinion levels and not only, health care is the most...

The objective of this research is to emphasize the difficulties generated by incomplete adoption of accounting concepts and treatments related to stocks into the public sector by the national regulators, by reference to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Taking into account...

Tax reliefs (tax expenditures) in the Czech Republic, as well as in other countries, are frequent topic of political and public finance discussion. Sometimes they are presented in a positive spirit as administratively inexpensive tool for promoting desirable public policies. More often, however,...