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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Are teacher pensions "hazardous" for schools?
Mahler, Patten Priestley - 2017
I use a detailed panel of data and a unique modeling specification to explore how public schoolteachers respond to the incentives embedded in North Carolina's retirement system. Like most public-sector retirement plans, North Carolina's teacher pension implicitly encourages teachers to continue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775564
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Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality : evidence from Indian experience
Chakraborti, Pinaki; Garg, Shatakshi - 2018
This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...
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The fiscal consequences of deflation : evidence from the Golden Age of globalization
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar - 2016
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Personal insolvency dynamics in Germany and the UK : a SUR-TAR approach
König, Nadja - 2016
This paper analyses the dynamics of personal insolvencies in Germany and the UK, focusing on the recent recession. These countries are particularly interesting as they are both member countries of the European Union, yet have completely different approaches to deal with overindebted individuals....
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Contractual imperfections and the impact of crises on trade : evidence from industry-level data
Castellares, Renzo; Salas, Jorge - 2016
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Are more severe recessions followed by stronger recoveries? : evidence from the Mexican states employment
Mejía Reyes, Pablo; Vergara-González, Reyna - 2015
recessions (depth, steepness and duration) in the case of the Mexican states employment during the 2001-2003 and 2008 …-2009 recessions. The original models are extended to include the effects of external and fiscal shocks, as measured by the annual … steepness of prior recessions (as measured by the percentage accumulated drop and the monthly average growth rate of employment …
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Booms and busts with dispersed information
Benhima, Kenza - 2019
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Financial and fiscal interaction in the euro area crisis : this time was different
Caruso, Alberto; Reichlin, Lucrezia; Ricco, Giovanni - 2019
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Duration dependence in US Expansions : a re-examination of the evidence
Portier, Franck; Beaudry, Paul - 2019
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