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Arguments in the debate austerity versus growth in Romania
Dumitrescu, Bogdan Andrei - In: Romanian Journal of Fiscal Policy (RJFP) 6 (2015) 1, pp. 54-62
The fiscal policy response to the consequences of the financial and economic crisis consisted either in adopting expansionary policies to stimulate the aggregate demand, or in promoting fiscal consolidation programs designed to restore the sustainability of the public finances. This paper...
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Investment and the golden rule in the European Union
Marinescu, Ada Cristina - In: Financial Studies 22 (2018) 1 (79), pp. 53-63
We will study in this paper the relation between public investment, public debt and fiscal rules in the European Union countries. The strict fiscal rules imposed by EU have negatively affected the investments. The decline in public investment in European Union is related to the fiscal rules...
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Wachstum und Konsolidierung: ein Gegensatz? Zur Diskussion um "Austeritätspolitik" und "Wachstumsfalle"
Neheider, Susanne; Schuknecht, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 82 (2013) 2, pp. 25-37
Die Debatte um Konsolidierung im Euroraum wird von der Frage dominiert, ob Konsolidierung dem Wachstum schadet. Der Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Überblick zum Diskussionsstand über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Konsolidierung und Wachstum. Darüber hinaus werden gängige Forderungen analysiert, die...
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The 'other half' of the public debt–economic growth relationship: a note on Reinhart and Rogoff
Dafermos, Yannis - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 12 (2015) 1, pp. 20-28
Reinhart/Rogoff (2010) and Reinhart et al. (2012) document a negative relationship between public debt and economic growth. However, by classifying the observations of their data set into public debt categories and identifying public debt overhang episodes, they focus only on 'one half' of the...
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Die Jagd auf den Zins oder: die Fiskalpolitik der Regierung Monti und ihre Folgen
Grasse, Alexander - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 11, pp. 751-758
Italien leidet politisch und ökonomisch unter der Finanzkrise in der Europäischen Union. Das Wachstum ist negativ und die Arbeitslosigkeit steigt. Obwohl die Neuverschuldung verringert wurde und die Handelsbilanz Überschüsse aufweist, bleibt ein Zinsspread bestehen. Zudem ist zu befürchten,...
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Determining the optimal public debt threshold for Nigeria
Omotosho, Babatunde S.; Bawa, Sani; Doguwa, Sani I. - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 07 (2016) 2, pp. 1-25
This paper investigates the existence of threshold effects in the relationship between public debt and economic growth in Nigeria using quarterly data. Generally, we found empirical support for an inverted U-shape relationship between public debt types and economic growth. For total public debt...
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Inequality and the duration of growth
Ostry, Jonathan D. - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 12 (2015) 2, pp. 147-157
The relationship between income inequality and economic growth is complex. Some inequality is integral to the effective … functioning of a market economy and the incentives needed for investment and growth. But inequality can also be destructive to … finds that the duration of growth spells is robustly associated with more equality in the income distribution. Inequality …
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Staatsverschuldung aus Bürgersicht: ein Forschungsüberblick
Mause, Karsten - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 4, pp. 39-49
Aufgrund der seit langem geführten Debatte um das Für und Wider der Nutzung des Politikinstruments der Staatsverschuldung wissen wir recht viel darüber, was Experten (z. B. Finanzpolitiker/ -wissenschaftler) von Haushaltskonsolidierung, Deficit-Spending oder Verschuldungsgrenzen halten....
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Was the Great Depression of 1929 harsher than the Greek depression?
Sklias, Pantelis; Rukanas, Spyros A.; Galatsidas, Georgios - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 14 (2021) 3, pp. 35-59
Purpose: This paper is an analysis based on the comparison of the Greek Depression with the Great Depression of 1929 in the US. Design/methodology/approach: This analysis does neither focus on the pre-crisis period, nor on the manifestation of the crisis or the structural problems and economic...
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Differential Harm: Patterns of Uneven Destruction
Di Liberto, Yuri - In: Journal of HARM 2 (2023), pp. 1-10
This essay opposes the idea that contemporary critical events like pandemics, global warming, environmental deterioration, et cetera, are to be considered as affecting humanity in a uniform way. Instead of seeing these phenomena like abstract universal threats, I propose to look at them through...
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